blackmail

Other forms of blackmail

plural

blackmails·

past tense

blackmailed·

present participle

blackmailing·

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 blackmail

What does blackmail mean?

blackmail means "exert pressure on someone through threats". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blackmail?

blackmail has 2 syllables: black-mail. The stress falls on "black". In IPA it is /ˈblækˌmeɪl/.

What is another word for blackmail?

Close synonyms include blackjack, pressure. 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 blackmail a common word?

blackmail is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with blackmail?

7 words rhyme with blackmail. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.