trailer

Other forms of trailer

plural

trailers·

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 trailer

What does trailer mean?

trailer means "someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in trailer?

trailer has 2 syllables: trai-ler. The stress falls on "trai". In IPA it is /ˈtɹeɪlɚ/.

What is another word for trailer?

Close synonyms include dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, poke. 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 trailer a common word?

trailer 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.

What rhymes with trailer?

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