setter

Other forms of setter

plural

setters·

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 setter

What does setter mean?

setter means "one who sets written material into type". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in setter?

setter has 2 syllables: set-ter. The stress falls on "set". In IPA it is /ˈsɛtɚ/.

What is another word for setter?

Close synonyms include compositor, typesetter, typographer. 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 setter a common word?

setter 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.

What rhymes with setter?

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