tyrannicide

1. 1.

   killing a tyrant

   Broadermurder

Other forms of tyrannicide

plural

tyrannicides·

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 tyrannicide

What does tyrannicide mean?

tyrannicide means "killing a tyrant".

How many syllables are in tyrannicide?

tyrannicide has 4 syllables and divides as ty-ran-ni-cide 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.