shoveler

Other forms of shoveler

plural

shovelers·

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 shoveler

What does shoveler mean?

shoveler means "a worker who shovels". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shoveler?

shoveler has 3 syllables: sho-ve-ler. The stress falls on "sho".

What is another word for shoveler?

Close synonyms include shoveller, shoveller, broadbill, Anas clypeata. 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 shoveler a common word?

shoveler 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.