scrambler

1. 1.

   a rapid mover; someone who scrambles

   “their quarterback was a good scrambler”

   “scramblers can often unnerve a better tennis player”

   Broadermover
2. 2.

   a lightweight motorcycle equipped with rugged tires and suspension; an off-road motorcycle designed for riding cross country or over unpaved ground

   Synonymstrail bikedirt bike

   Broadermotorcycle
3. 3.

   electronic equipment that makes speech unintelligible during transmission and restores it at reception

   Broaderelectronic equipment

Other forms of scrambler

plural

scramblers·

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 scrambler

What does scrambler mean?

scrambler means "a rapid mover; someone who scrambles". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scrambler?

scrambler has 2 syllables: scram-bler. The stress falls on "scram".

What is another word for scrambler?

Close synonyms include trail bike, dirt bike. 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 scrambler a common word?

scrambler is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.