tagger

Other forms of tagger

plural

taggers·

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 tagger

What does tagger mean?

tagger means "someone who assigns labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tagger?

tagger has 2 syllables: tag-ger. The stress falls on "tag".

What is another word for tagger?

Close synonyms include tagging program. 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 tagger a common word?

tagger 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.