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 and divides as black-mai-ler under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for blackmailer come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.