extortionist

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsblackmailerextortioner

   Broadercriminal

Other forms of extortionist

plural

extortionists·

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 extortionist

What does extortionist mean?

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

How many syllables are in extortionist?

extortionist has 4 syllables: ex-tor-tio-nist. The stress falls on "tor". In IPA it is /ɛkˈstɔɹʃənɪst/.

What is another word for extortionist?

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

extortionist is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.