sawyer

Other forms of sawyer

plural

sawyers·

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 sawyer

What does sawyer mean?

sawyer means "one who is employed to saw wood". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sawyer?

sawyer has 2 syllables: sa-wyer. The stress falls on "sa". In IPA it is /ˈsɔjɚ/.

What is another word for sawyer?

Close synonyms include sawyer beetle. 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 sawyer a common word?

sawyer is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.