sweeper

Other forms of sweeper

plural

sweepers·

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 sweeper

What does sweeper mean?

sweeper means "an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sweeper?

sweeper has 2 syllables: swee-per. The stress falls on "swee". In IPA it is /ˈswipɚ/.

What is another word for sweeper?

Close synonyms include carpet sweeper. 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 sweeper a common word?

sweeper 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.

What rhymes with sweeper?

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