bluejacket

Other forms of bluejacket

plural

bluejackets·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bluejacket

What does bluejacket mean?

bluejacket means "a serviceman in the navy".

How many syllables are in bluejacket?

bluejacket has 3 syllables: blue-jac-ket. The stress falls on "blue". In IPA it is /ˈbluˌdʒækɪt/.

What is another word for bluejacket?

Close synonyms include navy man, sailor, sailor boy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bluejacket a common word?

bluejacket is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.