rapscallion

Other forms of rapscallion

plural

rapscallions·

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 rapscallion

What does rapscallion mean?

rapscallion means "a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rapscallion?

rapscallion has 4 syllables: rap-scal-li-on. The stress falls on "scal".

What is another word for rapscallion?

Close synonyms include rogue, knave, rascal, scalawag, scallywag. 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 rapscallion a common word?

rapscallion 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.