starter

Other forms of starter

plural

starters·

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 starter

What does starter mean?

starter means "an electric motor for starting an engine". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in starter?

starter has 2 syllables: star-ter. The stress falls on "star". In IPA it is /ˈstɑɹtɚ/.

What is another word for starter?

Close synonyms include starter motor, starting motor, dispatcher, newcomer, fledgling. 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 starter a common word?

starter 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 starter?

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