spotter

Other forms of spotter

plural

spotters·

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 spotter

What does spotter mean?

spotter means "a worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spotter?

spotter has 2 syllables: spot-ter. The stress falls on "spot". In IPA it is /ˈspɑtɚ/.

What is another word for spotter?

Close synonyms include lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch. 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 spotter a common word?

spotter 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.