wader

Other forms of wader

plural

waders·

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 wader

What does wader mean?

wader means "any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food".

How many syllables are in wader?

wader has 2 syllables: wa-der. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈweɪdɚ/.

What is another word for wader?

Close synonyms include wading bird. 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 wader a common word?

wader 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.