sailor

Other forms of sailor

plural

sailors·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sailor

What does sailor mean?

sailor means "any member of a ship's crew". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sailor?

sailor has 2 syllables: sai-lor. The stress falls on "sai". In IPA it is /ˈseɪlɚ/.

What is another word for sailor?

Close synonyms include crewman, bluejacket, navy man, sailor boy, boater. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sailor a common word?

sailor is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sailor?

1 word rhymes with sailor. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.