sneaker

Other forms of sneaker

plural

sneakers·

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 sneaker

What does sneaker mean?

sneaker means "a canvas shoe with a pliable rubber sole". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sneaker?

sneaker has 2 syllables: snea-ker. The stress falls on "snea". In IPA it is /ˈsnikɚ/.

What is another word for sneaker?

Close synonyms include gym shoe, tennis shoe, fink, snitch, snitcher. 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 sneaker a common word?

sneaker 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.