strawman

Other forms of strawman

plural

strawmans·

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 strawman

What does strawman mean?

strawman means "a person used as a cover for some questionable activity". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in strawman?

strawman has 2 syllables: straw-man. The stress falls on "straw".

What is another word for strawman?

Close synonyms include front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man. 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 strawman a common word?

strawman 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.