timer

Other forms of timer

plural

timers·

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 timer

What does timer mean?

timer means "a timepiece that measures a time interval and signals its end". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in timer?

timer has 2 syllables: ti-mer. The stress falls on "ti". In IPA it is /ˈtaɪmɚ/.

What is another word for timer?

Close synonyms include timekeeper. 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 timer a common word?

timer 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 timer?

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