murderess
Syllables: mur·der·essUK/mɜːdəˈɹɛs//ˈmɝdəɹəs/
murderess is the female equivalent of murderer.
Meaning of murderer
Noun
murderer (plural murderers)
Forms of murderess
| plural | murderesses |
|---|---|
| alternative form | murdress |
Origin of murderess
From Middle English morderes, from Old French morderesse, moeurdrese; equivalent to murder + -ess.
Words that rhyme with murderess
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- SMS
- success
- compress
- largesse
- ness
- profess
- confess
- distress
- regress
- depress
- excess
- guess
- prepossess
- undress
- CBS
- ingress
- oppress
- redress
- transgress
- assess
- cess
- duress
- fess
- fluoresce
- Hesse
- less
- mayoress
- obsess
- tress
- unless
- yes
- accresce
- acquiesce
- aggress
- BESS
- caress
- clothes press
- congress
- defervesce
- digress
- ess
- foulness
- Hess
- intumesce
- jess
- lazy S
- liquesce
- repress
Questions about murderess
- What is murderess the female equivalent of?
- Murderess is the female equivalent of murderer.
- How do you pronounce murderess?
- Murderess is pronounced /mɜːdəˈɹɛs/ (UK).
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: murderess (page history and authors); murderer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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