As I read through the letters, I realized that the Pope was the true culprit.
Source: tatoeba (246527)
Culprit
//ˈkʌlpɹɪt//
Synonyms for "culprit" (12 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (3)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (3)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (6)
Related word relations
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More general
2 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
7 entriesderived
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
2 entriesrelated to
10 entriesTranslations
77 translations across 38 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- جَانِي noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- مُتَّهَم noun (person accused but not yet tried)
- مُجْرِم noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- günahkar noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- müqəssir noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- təqsirkar noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Basque
1 entries- errudun noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Bulgarian
2 entries- обвиняем noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- подсъдим noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Catalan
1 entries- culpable noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 元凶 noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- 肇事者 noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- 肇因 noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Czech
1 entries- viník noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Dutch
2 entries- dader noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- schuldige noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Esperanto
1 entries- krimulo noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Finnish
2 entries- syyllinen noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- syypää noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
French
1 entries- coupable noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
German
4 entries- Beklagter noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- Beschuldigter noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- Missetäter noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- Schuldiger noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Greek
2 entries- ένοχος noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- φταίχτης noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Hebrew
1 entries- אשם noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Hungarian
4 entries- bűnös noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- elkövető noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- tettes noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- vádlott noun (person accused but not yet tried)
Indonesian
2 entries- pelaku noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- pembuat ulah noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Irish
1 entries- ciontach noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Italian
2 entries- colpevole noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- reo noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Japanese
1 entries- 犯人 noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Korean
1 entries- 범인 noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Latin
3 entries- nocens noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- noxius noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- reus noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Latvian
2 entries- vaininiece noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- vaininieks noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Macedonian
2 entries- ви́новник noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- кри́вец noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Malayalam
1 entries- കുറ്റവാളി noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- synder noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- виньникъ noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Polish
3 entries- delikwent noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- sprawca noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- winowajca noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Portuguese
1 entries- culpado noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Russian
4 entries- вино́вник noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- обвиня́емый noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- подозреваемый noun (person accused but not yet tried)
- подследственный noun (person accused but not yet tried)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- krivac noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- vinovnik noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Spanish
2 entries- culpable noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- nocente noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Swahili
1 entries- mkosaji noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Swedish
3 entries- brottsling noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- förövare noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- gärningsman noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Thai
2 entries- คนร้าย noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- ผู้ร้าย noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Turkish
4 entries- hükümlü noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- mücrim noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- sanık noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
- suçlu noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thủ phạm noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Walloon
1 entries- coupåbe noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Welsh
1 entries- euog noun (person or thing at fault of problem or crime)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
None of them would admit to being the culprit.
Source: tatoeba (276685)
The culprit is caught like a rat in a trap.
Source: tatoeba (282805)
It's totally without precedent for the suspect's attorney to be the true culprit.
Source: tatoeba (282809)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.