shaver

Other forms of shaver

plural

shavers·

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 shaver

What does shaver mean?

shaver means "an adult male who shaves". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shaver?

shaver has 2 syllables: sha-ver. The stress falls on "sha". In IPA it is /ˈʃeɪvɚ/.

What is another word for shaver?

Close synonyms include child, kid, youngster, minor, nipper. 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 shaver a common word?

shaver 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.