suspender

Questions about suspender

What does suspender mean?

suspender means "elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural)".

How many syllables are in suspender?

suspender has 3 syllables: su-spen-der. The stress falls on "spen". In IPA it is /səˈspɛndɚ/.

What is another word for suspender?

Close synonyms include brace, gallus. 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 suspender a common word?

suspender 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.

What rhymes with suspender?

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