spawner

1. 1.

   a female fish at spawning time

   Broaderfish

Other forms of spawner

plural

spawners·

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 spawner

What does spawner mean?

spawner means "a female fish at spawning time".

How many syllables are in spawner?

spawner has 2 syllables: spaw-ner. The stress falls on "spaw".

Is spawner a common word?

spawner 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.