dictator

Other forms of dictator

plural

dictators·

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 dictator

What does dictator mean?

dictator means "a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dictator?

dictator has 3 syllables: dic-ta-tor. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /dɪkˈteɪtɚ/.

What is another word for dictator?

Close synonyms include potentate, authoritarian. 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 dictator a common word?

dictator 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.

What rhymes with dictator?

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