racketeer

Other forms of racketeer

plural

racketeers·

past tense

racketeered·

present participle

racketeering·

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 racketeer

What does racketeer mean?

racketeer means "someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in racketeer?

racketeer has 3 syllables: rac-ke-teer. The stress falls on "teer". In IPA it is /ˌɹækɪˈtɪɹ/.

Is racketeer a common word?

racketeer is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 racketeer?

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