wiener

Other forms of wiener

plural

wieners·

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 wiener

What does wiener mean?

wiener means "United States mathematician and founder of cybernetics (1894-1964)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wiener?

wiener has 2 syllables: wie-ner. The stress falls on "wie". In IPA it is /ˈwinɚ/.

What is another word for wiener?

Close synonyms include Norbert Wiener, frank, frankfurter, hotdog, hot dog. 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 wiener a common word?

wiener 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.