blackmailer

1. 1.

   a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them

   Synonymsextortionerextortionist

   Broadercriminal

Other forms of blackmailer

plural

blackmailers·

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 blackmailer

What does blackmailer mean?

blackmailer means "a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them".

How many syllables are in blackmailer?

blackmailer has 3 syllables: black-mai-ler. The stress falls on "black".

What is another word for blackmailer?

Close synonyms include extortioner, extortionist. 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 blackmailer a common word?

blackmailer 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.