typewriter

Other forms of typewriter

plural

typewriters·

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 typewriter

What does typewriter mean?

typewriter means "hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time".

How many syllables are in typewriter?

typewriter has 3 syllables: type-wri-ter. The stress falls on "type". In IPA it is /ˈtaɪˌpɹaɪtɚ/.

Is typewriter a common word?

typewriter 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.