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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stunner

/stˈʌnɚ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.83 in modern English

Syllables
stun-ner
IPA
/stˈʌnɚ/
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Anything that is stunning.

Colloquial

noun

Anything that is stunning.

Colloquial

noun

A professional wrestling maneuver in which an attacking wrestler applies a facelock to an opponent and falls to a seated position, forcing the opponent's jaw or neck to drop on the attacker's shoulder.

noun

A pistol firing a beam capable of stunning an enemy.

noun

A person or machine that stuns an animal before slaughter.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Etymology tree English stun Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English stunner From stun + -er.

Usage

Inflected Forms

stunners (plural)

Derived Forms

neurostunner

Phrases

Dunner stunner put the stunners on

Frequently Paired Words

stunna

Synonyms

smasher knockout beauty ravisher sweetheart peach lulu looker mantrap dish

Rhymes With

runner gunner brunner tonner bunner lesser roadrunner dunner punner lunner shunner

Questions

How do you pronounce stunner?
The recorded pronunciation is /stˈʌnɚ/.
What does stunner mean?
Anything that is stunning.
Where does stunner come from?
Etymology tree English stun Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English stunner From stun + -er.

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