pillager

Other forms of pillager

plural

pillagers·

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 pillager

What does pillager mean?

pillager means "someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)".

How many syllables are in pillager?

pillager has 3 syllables: pil-la-ger. The stress falls on "pil". In IPA it is /ˈpɪlɪdʒɚ/.

What is another word for pillager?

Close synonyms include plunderer, looter, spoiler, despoiler, raider. 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 pillager a common word?

pillager 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.