aggressor
/əˈɡɹɛsɚ/noun
aggressor is spelled A-G-G-R-E-S-S-O-R: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, aggressor means “The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of aggressor is aggressors.
How many letters and syllables are in aggressor?
| Letters | 9: A-G-G-R-E-S-S-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.0 times per million words; the 28,556th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is aggressor?
Aggressor appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce aggressor?
- UK /əˈɡɹɛsə/
- US /əˈɡɹɛsɚ/
Aggressor has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-aggressor.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with aggressor?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as aggressor from its last stressed vowel (/ɛsəɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of aggressor
- aggressors plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does aggressor mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
noun
- 1
a citizen/subject of the fictional Aggressor state
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Aggressor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | agresseur, agresseuse |
| German | Aggressor, Aggressorin, Angreifer, Angreiferin |
| Portuguese | agressor, agressora |
| Spanish | agresor, agresora |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does aggressor come from?
Derived from Latin aggressor (“attacker, assailant, aggressor”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).