blackmailer
noun
blackmailer is spelled B-L-A-C-K-M-A-I-L-E-R: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, blackmailer means “Someone who blackmails” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of blackmailer is blackmailers.
How many letters and syllables are in blackmailer?
| Letters | 11: B-L-A-C-K-M-A-I-L-E-R |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 80,453rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is blackmailer?
Blackmailer appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd 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 blackmailer?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-blackmailer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of blackmailer
- blackmailers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does blackmailer mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone who blackmails.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Blackmailer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense someone who blackmails:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | maître-chanteur, maître-chanteuse |
| German | Erpresser, Erpresserin |
| Portuguese | chantagista |
| Spanish | chantajista |
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 blackmailer come from?
From blackmail + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).