malefactor

Other forms of malefactor

plural

malefactors·

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 malefactor

What does malefactor mean?

malefactor means "someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime".

How many syllables are in malefactor?

malefactor has 4 syllables: mal-e-fac-tor. The stress falls on "mal". In IPA it is /ˈmæləˌfæktɚ/.

What is another word for malefactor?

Close synonyms include criminal, felon, crook, outlaw. 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 malefactor a common word?

malefactor 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.

What rhymes with malefactor?

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