pugilist

Other forms of pugilist

plural

pugilists·

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 pugilist

What does pugilist mean?

pugilist means "someone who fights with his fists for sport".

How many syllables are in pugilist?

pugilist has 3 syllables: pu-gi-list. The stress falls on "pu". In IPA it is /ˈpjudʒəlɪst/.

What is another word for pugilist?

Close synonyms include boxer. 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 pugilist a common word?

pugilist 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.