transgressor
noun
transgressor is a noun meaning “Someone who transgresses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-A-N-S-G-R-E-S-S-O-R and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of transgressor is transgressors.
What does transgressor mean?
noun
- 1
Someone who transgresses.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce transgressor?
Transgressor 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-transgressor.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of transgressor
- transgressors plural
- transgressour
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is transgressor?
Transgressor appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th 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).
Transgressor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense someone who transgresses:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | transgresseur, transgresseuse |
| German | Übertreter |
| Portuguese | transgressor |
| Spanish | transgresor, transgresora |
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 transgressor come from?
From Middle English transgressour, from Anglo-Norman transgressour, from Latin transgressor. Equivalent to transgress + -or.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).