stealer

Other forms of stealer

plural

stealers·

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 stealer

What does stealer mean?

stealer means "a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it".

How many syllables are in stealer?

stealer has 2 syllables: stea-ler. The stress falls on "stea". In IPA it is /ˈstilɚ/.

What is another word for stealer?

Close synonyms include thief. 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 stealer a common word?

stealer 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.