terrorist
/ˈtɛɹəɹɪst/noun, adjective
terrorist is spelled T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-T. The wrong spelling people search most is terroist: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Terrorist is a noun meaning “A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further…”. The plural of terrorist is terrorists.
How many letters and syllables are in terrorist?
| Letters | 9: T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 22 times per million words; the 3,939th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, terroist, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell terrorist?
Terrorist is spelled T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 19 of the searches for terrorist in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is terrorist?
Terrorist appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 3,939th 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 terrorist?
- /ˈtɛɹəɹɪst/
Terrorist 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-terrorist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of terrorist
- terrorists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does terrorist mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals.
- 2
An agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to terrorism.
Wiktionary also records terrorist as a common misspelling of another word in some uses; the senses above are its own.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Terrorist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | terroriste |
| German | Terrorist, Terroristin , terroristisch, terror- |
| Portuguese | terrorista |
| Spanish | terrorista |
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.