sponger

Questions about sponger

What does sponger mean?

sponger means "a workman employed to collect sponges". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sponger?

sponger has 2 syllables: spon-ger. The stress falls on "spon".

What is another word for sponger?

Close synonyms include leech, parasite, sponge. 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 sponger a common word?

sponger 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.