ogress

1. 1.

   (folklore) a female ogre

   Broaderogre

Other forms of ogress

plural

ogresses·

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 ogress

What does ogress mean?

ogress means "(folklore) a female ogre".

How many syllables are in ogress?

ogress has 2 syllables: o-gress. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊɡɹəs/.

Is ogress a common word?

ogress 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.