guerilla

Other forms of guerilla

plural

guerillas·

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 guerilla

What does guerilla mean?

guerilla means "a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment".

How many syllables are in guerilla?

guerilla has 3 syllables: gue-ril-la. The stress falls on "ril". In IPA it is /ɡɚˈɪlə/.

What is another word for guerilla?

Close synonyms include guerrilla, irregular, insurgent. 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 guerilla a common word?

guerilla 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.

What rhymes with guerilla?

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