wager

1. 1.

   stake on the outcome of an issue

   “I bet $100 on that new horse”

   “She played all her money on the dark horse”

   Synonymsbetplay

   Broadergamble

   Narrowerbet onplayraisesee
2. 2.

   maintain with or as if with a bet

   “I bet she will be there!”

   Synonymsbet

   Broaderpredict

Other forms of wager

plural

wagers·

past tense

wagerred·

present participle

wagerring·

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 wager

What does wager mean?

wager means "the act of gambling". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wager?

wager has 2 syllables: wa-ger. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈweɪdʒɚ/.

What is another word for wager?

Close synonyms include bet, stake, stakes, bet, bet. 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 wager a common word?

wager 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.