tortfeasor
tort·fea·sor/ˈtɔɹtˌfiːzɚ/noun
tortfeasor is a noun meaning “A person who commits a tort” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-O-R-T-F-E-A-S-O-R and has 3 syllables (tort·fea·sor), and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tortfeasor is tortfeasors.
What does tortfeasor mean?
noun
- 1
A person who commits a tort.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce tortfeasor?
- UK /ˈtɔːtˌfiːzə/
- US /ˈtɔɹtˌfiːzɚ/
Tortfeasor has 3 syllables, split tort·fea·sor in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of tortfeasor
- tortfeasors plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tortfeasor?
Tortfeasor appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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).
Tortfeasor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who commits a tort:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Schädiger, Täter |
| Spanish | agraviador, agresor, injuriador |
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 tortfeasor come from?
From Anglo-Norman tortfeasor, from Old French tortfesor, tort-faiseur, torfesor, torzfesor (“wrongdoer”), from tort (“a misdeed, a wrong”) + fesor, faiseur (“doer”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).