successor

Other forms of successor

plural

successors·

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 successor

What does successor mean?

successor means "a person who follows next in order". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in successor?

successor has 3 syllables: suc-ces-sor. The stress falls on "ces". In IPA it is /səkˈsɛsɚ/.

What is another word for successor?

Close synonyms include replacement, heir. 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 successor a common word?

successor 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 successor?

4 words rhyme with successor. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.