lexicographer
nounHow many syllables in lexicographer?
There are 5 syllables in the word lexicographer.How to pronounce lexicographer:
Definition of lexicographer:
- lexicographer (noun):
- an author or editor of a dictionary
- a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language.
Synonyms for lexicographer:
autobiographer
biographer
coauthor
cowriter
definer
editor
etymologist
fictionist
ghostwriter
hack
hagiographer
lexicologist
linguist
linguistic scientist
littérateur
memoirist
memorialist
neologist
novelist
scribbler
synonymist
writer
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- acrimonious
- assiduousness
- specificity
- quindecillion
- questioningly
- prophetically
- terrifically
- unquenchable
- indubitably
- parallelogram
- undefeatable
- perpendicular
- passionately
- occupiable
- recognizable
- similarities
- ramification
- unhesitating
- logicality
- elaborately
- incomparable
- unfathomably
- hypophrenia
- meliorative
- unobtrusively
- questionably
- diminuendo
- malleability
- unfavorable
- indestructible
- hemophiliac
- legitimacy
- favouritism
- dromomania
- revelatory
- cephalocaudal
- obscurantism
- invigorating
- agonizingly
- subsidiary
- colonoscopy
- inebriated
- deleterious
- determinedly
- confidentially
- aristocracy
- tempestuously
- generosity
- preliminary
- serendipity
- … more
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