saboteur

Other forms of saboteur

plural

saboteurs·

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 saboteur

What does saboteur mean?

saboteur means "someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in saboteur?

saboteur has 3 syllables: sab-o-teur. The stress falls on "teur". In IPA it is /ˌsæbəˈtɝ/.

What is another word for saboteur?

Close synonyms include wrecker, diversionist, fifth columnist. 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 saboteur a common word?

saboteur 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 saboteur?

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