shaper

Other forms of shaper

plural

shapers·

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 shaper

What does shaper mean?

shaper means "a person who makes things". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shaper?

shaper has 2 syllables: sha-per. The stress falls on "sha".

What is another word for shaper?

Close synonyms include maker, shaping machine. 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 shaper a common word?

shaper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.