scavenger

Other forms of scavenger

plural

scavengers·

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 scavenger

What does scavenger mean?

scavenger means "a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scavenger?

scavenger has 3 syllables: scav-en-ger. The stress falls on "scav". In IPA it is /ˈskævəndʒɚ/.

What is another word for scavenger?

Close synonyms include magpie, pack rat. 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 scavenger a common word?

scavenger 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.