impostor

Other forms of impostor

plural

impostors·

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 impostor

What does impostor mean?

impostor means "a person who makes deceitful pretenses".

How many syllables are in impostor?

impostor has 3 syllables: im-po-stor. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /ˌɪmˈpɔstɚ/.

What is another word for impostor?

Close synonyms include imposter, pretender, fake, faker, fraud. 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 impostor a common word?

impostor 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 impostor?

1 word rhymes with impostor. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.