user

Other forms of user

plural

users·

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 user

What does user mean?

user means "a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in user?

user has 2 syllables: u-ser. The stress falls on "u". In IPA it is /ˈjuzɚ/.

What is another word for user?

Close synonyms include exploiter, drug user, substance abuser. 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 user a common word?

user 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.