chessman

Other forms of chessman

plural

chessmans·

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 chessman

What does chessman mean?

chessman means "any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess".

How many syllables are in chessman?

chessman has 2 syllables: ches-sman. The stress falls on "ches". In IPA it is /ˈtʃɛsmən/.

What is another word for chessman?

Close synonyms include chess piece. 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 chessman a common word?

chessman 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.