stumbler

Other forms of stumbler

plural

stumblers·

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 stumbler

What does stumbler mean?

stumbler means "a walker or runner who trips and almost falls". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stumbler?

stumbler has 2 syllables: stum-bler. The stress falls on "stum".

What is another word for stumbler?

Close synonyms include tripper, bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler. 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 stumbler a common word?

stumbler is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.