tyrant

Other forms of tyrant

plural

tyrants·

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 tyrant

What does tyrant mean?

tyrant means "a cruel and oppressive dictator". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tyrant?

tyrant has 2 syllables: ty-rant. The stress falls on "ty". In IPA it is /ˈtaɪɹənt/.

What is another word for tyrant?

Close synonyms include autocrat, despot. 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 tyrant a common word?

tyrant is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.