Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phisherman

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: phish-er-man
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The criminal performing phishing attacks.

Example Sentences

"Thus if he mistakenly enters his Citibank password into a phishing site, the phisherman gets a different password and cannot use it to impersonate him."

Etymology

From phisher + -man, modeled on fisherman.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: phisher

Inflected Forms

phishermen (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

phish spearphisher spearphishing

Questions

What does phisherman mean?: The criminal performing phishing attacks.
Where does phisherman come from?: From phisher + -man, modeled on fisherman.

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