pyromaniac

1. 1.

   a person with a mania for setting things on fire

   Broaderlunatic

Other forms of pyromaniac

plural

pyromaniacs·

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 pyromaniac

What does pyromaniac mean?

pyromaniac means "a person with a mania for setting things on fire".

How many syllables are in pyromaniac?

pyromaniac has 5 syllables and divides as py-ro-ma-ni-ac under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.