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malfeasor

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
malfea-sor
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A wrongdoer.

Etymology

From Middle English malfesour, from Anglo-Norman malfesour, from Old French mal (“evil”) + fes-, stem of fere (“do, make”), from Latin faciō (“to do”). Compare malefactor, borrowed directly from Latin.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

malfeasors (plural)

Questions

What does malfeasor mean?
A wrongdoer.
Where does malfeasor come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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