spender

Other forms of spender

plural

spenders·

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 spender

What does spender mean?

spender means "English poet and critic (1909-1995)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spender?

spender has 2 syllables: spen-der. The stress falls on "spen". In IPA it is /ˈspɛndɚ/.

What is another word for spender?

Close synonyms include Stephen Spender, Sir Stephen Harold Spender, spendthrift, spend-all, scattergood. 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 spender a common word?

spender is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with spender?

1 word rhymes with spender. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.