younker

Other forms of younker

plural

younkers·

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 younker

What does younker mean?

younker means "a young person (especially a young man or boy)".

How many syllables are in younker?

younker has 2 syllables: youn-ker. The stress falls on "youn". In IPA it is /ˈjʌŋkɚ/.

What is another word for younker?

Close synonyms include young person, youth, spring chicken. 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 younker a common word?

younker 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.