teacher

Other forms of teacher

plural

teachers·

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 teacher

What does teacher mean?

teacher means "a person whose occupation is teaching". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in teacher?

teacher has 2 syllables: tea-cher. The stress falls on "tea". In IPA it is /ˈtitʃɚ/.

What is another word for teacher?

Close synonyms include instructor. 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 teacher a common word?

teacher is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 teacher?

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