totaliser

Other forms of totaliser

plural

totalisers·

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 totaliser

What does totaliser mean?

totaliser means "computer that registers bets and divides the total amount bet among those who won". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in totaliser?

totaliser has 4 syllables and divides as to-ta-li-ser under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for totaliser?

Close synonyms include pari-mutuel machine, totalizer, totalizator, totalisator, adding machine. 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 totaliser a common word?

totaliser is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.