tanker

Other forms of tanker

plural

tankers·

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 tanker

What does tanker mean?

tanker means "a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tanker?

tanker has 2 syllables: tan-ker. The stress falls on "tan". In IPA it is /ˈtæŋkɚ/.

What is another word for tanker?

Close synonyms include oil tanker, oiler, tank ship, tank driver. 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 tanker a common word?

tanker 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 tanker?

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