sharpshooter

Other forms of sharpshooter

plural

sharpshooters·

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 sharpshooter

What does sharpshooter mean?

sharpshooter means "an athlete noted for accurate aim". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sharpshooter?

sharpshooter has 3 syllables: sharp-shoo-ter. The stress falls on "sharp". In IPA it is /ˈʃɑɹpʃutɚ/.

What is another word for sharpshooter?

Close synonyms include marksman, crack shot. 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 sharpshooter a common word?

sharpshooter 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.