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fearmonger

fear·mong·er/ˈfɪəɹˌmʌŋɡəɹ/noun, verb

fearmonger is a noun meaning “Someone who spreads fear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-A-R-M-O-N-G-E-R and has 3 syllables (fear·mong·er), and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fearmonger is fearmongers.

What does fearmonger mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Someone who spreads fear.

verb

  1. 1

    To spread fear.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce fearmonger?

  • UK /ˈfɪəmʌŋɡə/
  • US /ˈfɪəɹˌmʌŋɡəɹ/

Fearmonger has 3 syllables, split fear·mong·er in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fearmonger.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-fearmonger.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of fearmonger

  • fearmongers plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • fear-monger
  • fear monger
  • fearmongering participle, present
  • fearmongered participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fearmonger?

Fearmonger appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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).

Fearmonger in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense to spread fear:

LanguageWords
Frenchsemer la peur
Portugueseespalhar medo

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 fearmonger come from?

From fear + monger (“dealer in a specific commodity; (by extension) person promoting something undesirable”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).