teenager

Other forms of teenager

plural

teenagers·

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 teenager

What does teenager mean?

teenager means "a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity".

How many syllables are in teenager?

teenager has 3 syllables: tee-na-ger. The stress falls on "tee". In IPA it is /ˈtiˌneɪdʒɚ/.

What is another word for teenager?

Close synonyms include adolescent, stripling, teen. 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 teenager a common word?

teenager is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.