skirmisher

1. 1.

   someone who skirmishes (e.g., as a member of a scouting party)

   Broadercombatant

Other forms of skirmisher

plural

skirmishers·

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 skirmisher

What does skirmisher mean?

skirmisher means "someone who skirmishes (e.g., as a member of a scouting party)".

How many syllables are in skirmisher?

skirmisher has 3 syllables and divides as skir-mi-sher 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.