yawner

1. 1.

   a person who yawns

   Broaderperson

Other forms of yawner

plural

yawners·

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 yawner

What does yawner mean?

yawner means "a person who yawns".

How many syllables are in yawner?

yawner has 2 syllables: yaw-ner. The stress falls on "yaw". In IPA it is /ˈjɔnɚ/.

Is yawner a common word?

yawner 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.