Synonyms for rifle

Most common

riffle

All synonyms

Verb

Noun

Definitions

1. v. 1

   To search with intent to steal.

2. n. 1

   A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.

Related words

Word family

rifling

Phrases

air rifle automatic rifle benchrest rifle express rifle survival rifle

Is a kind of

firearm gun weapon

Forms

Plural

rifles → guns, fishes, rummages, trawls…

Past participle

rifled
e.g. rifled → plundered, looted, ransacked, pillaged…

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

2 letters

go¹

3 letters

gun¹, rob¹

4 letters

fish¹, sack¹, loot¹

5 letters

strip¹, foray², trawl, reave¹

6 letters

fleece¹, riffle²

7 letters

plunder², pillage², rummage², ransack², despoil

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (foray² = 2 syllables).