ransack

Other forms of ransack

past tense

ransacked·

present participle

ransacking·

third person

ransacks·

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 ransack

What does ransack mean?

ransack means "steal goods; take as spoils". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ransack?

ransack has 2 syllables: ran-sack. The stress falls on "ran". In IPA it is /ˈɹænˌsæk/.

What is another word for ransack?

Close synonyms include plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip. 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 ransack a common word?

ransack 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 ransack?

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