offender

Other forms of offender

plural

offenders·

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 offender

What does offender mean?

offender means "a person who transgresses moral or civil law".

How many syllables are in offender?

offender has 3 syllables: of-fen-der. The stress falls on "fen". In IPA it is /əˈfɛndɚ/.

What is another word for offender?

Close synonyms include wrongdoer. 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 offender a common word?

offender is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 offender?

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