sprayer

Other forms of sprayer

plural

sprayers·

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 sprayer

What does sprayer mean?

sprayer means "a worker who applies spray to a surface". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sprayer?

sprayer has 2 syllables: spra-yer. The stress falls on "spra". In IPA it is /ˈspɹeɪɚ/.

What is another word for sprayer?

Close synonyms include atomizer, atomiser, spray, nebulizer, nebuliser. 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 sprayer a common word?

sprayer 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.