watcher

Other forms of watcher

plural

watchers·

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 watcher

What does watcher mean?

watcher means "a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in watcher?

watcher has 2 syllables: wat-cher. The stress falls on "wat". In IPA it is /ˈwɑtʃɚ/.

What is another word for watcher?

Close synonyms include spectator, witness, viewer, looker, watchman. 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 watcher a common word?

watcher 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.