insurrectionist

Other forms of insurrectionist

plural

insurrectionists·

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 insurrectionist

What does insurrectionist mean?

insurrectionist means "a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)".

How many syllables are in insurrectionist?

insurrectionist has 6 syllables and divides as in-sur-rec-ti-o-nist under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for insurrectionist?

Close synonyms include insurgent, freedom fighter, rebel. 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 insurrectionist a common word?

insurrectionist is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.