guerrilla

Other forms of guerrilla

plural

guerrillas·

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 guerrilla

What does guerrilla mean?

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

How many syllables are in guerrilla?

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

What is another word for guerrilla?

Close synonyms include guerilla, 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 guerrilla a common word?

guerrilla 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 guerrilla?

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