sufferer

Other forms of sufferer

plural

sufferers·

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 sufferer

What does sufferer mean?

sufferer means "a person suffering from an illness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sufferer?

sufferer has 3 syllables: suf-fe-rer. The stress falls on "suf". In IPA it is /ˈsʌfɚɚ/.

What is another word for sufferer?

Close synonyms include sick person, diseased person, martyr. 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 sufferer a common word?

sufferer 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.