felon

Other forms of felon

plural

felons·

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 felon

What does felon mean?

felon means "someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in felon?

felon has 2 syllables: fel-on. The stress falls on "fel". In IPA it is /ˈfɛlən/.

What is another word for felon?

Close synonyms include criminal, crook, outlaw, malefactor, whitlow. 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 felon a common word?

felon 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.