victim

Other forms of victim

plural

victims·

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 victim

What does victim mean?

victim means "an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in victim?

victim has 2 syllables: vic-tim. The stress falls on "vic". In IPA it is /ˈvɪktəm/.

What is another word for victim?

Close synonyms include dupe. 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 victim a common word?

victim is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.