assailant

Other forms of assailant

plural

assailants·

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 assailant

What does assailant mean?

assailant means "someone who attacks".

How many syllables are in assailant?

assailant has 3 syllables: as-sai-lant. The stress falls on "sai". In IPA it is /əˈseɪlənt/.

What is another word for assailant?

Close synonyms include attacker, aggressor, assaulter. 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 assailant a common word?

assailant 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.