trooper

Other forms of trooper

plural

troopers·

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 trooper

What does trooper mean?

trooper means "a soldier in a motorized army unit". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in trooper?

trooper has 2 syllables: troo-per. The stress falls on "troo". In IPA it is /ˈtɹupɚ/.

What is another word for trooper?

Close synonyms include cavalryman, state trooper, cavalryman. 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 trooper a common word?

trooper 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 trooper?

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