sewer

Other forms of sewer

plural

sewers·

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 sewer

What does sewer mean?

sewer means "a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sewer?

sewer has 2 syllables: se-wer. The stress falls on "se". In IPA it is /ˈsuɚ/.

What is another word for sewer?

Close synonyms include sewerage, cloaca, gutter, toilet. 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 sewer a common word?

sewer 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.

What rhymes with sewer?

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