scrubber

Other forms of scrubber

plural

scrubbers·

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 scrubber

What does scrubber mean?

scrubber means "a worker who uses a scrub brush to clean a surface (usually a floor or deck)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scrubber?

scrubber has 2 syllables: scrub-ber. The stress falls on "scrub". In IPA it is /ˈskɹʌbɚ/.

What is another word for scrubber?

Close synonyms include scrub brush, scrubbing brush. 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 scrubber a common word?

scrubber 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.