instigator

Other forms of instigator

plural

instigators·

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 instigator

What does instigator mean?

instigator means "someone who deliberately foments trouble". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in instigator?

instigator has 4 syllables: in-sti-ga-tor. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪnstəˌɡeɪtɚ/.

What is another word for instigator?

Close synonyms include provoker, inciter, instigant, firebrand, initiator. 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 instigator a common word?

instigator 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 instigator?

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