soaker

Other forms of soaker

plural

soakers·

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 soaker

What does soaker mean?

soaker means "a heavy rain". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in soaker?

soaker has 2 syllables: soa-ker. The stress falls on "soa". In IPA it is /ˈsoʊkɚ/.

What is another word for soaker?

Close synonyms include downpour, cloudburst, deluge, waterspout, torrent. 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 soaker a common word?

soaker 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.