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say it: STAY-puh-lur
stapler is a noun meaning "a machine that inserts staples into sheets of paper in order to fasten them together". It is pronounced /ˈsteɪpəlɚ/ — STAY-puh-lur. It carries one recorded sense.
a machine that inserts staples into sheets of paper in order to fasten them together
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stapler come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.