manslayer

Other forms of manslayer

plural

manslayers·

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 manslayer

What does manslayer mean?

manslayer means "a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)".

How many syllables are in manslayer?

manslayer has 2 syllables: man-slayer. The stress falls on "man".

What is another word for manslayer?

Close synonyms include murderer, liquidator. 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 manslayer a common word?

manslayer 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.