intercessor

Other forms of intercessor

plural

intercessors·

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 intercessor

What does intercessor mean?

intercessor means "a negotiator who acts as a link between parties".

How many syllables are in intercessor?

intercessor has 4 syllables and divides as in-ter-ces-sor 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 intercessor?

Close synonyms include mediator, go-between, intermediator, intermediary. 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 intercessor a common word?

intercessor 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.