crewman

Other forms of crewman

plural

crewmans·

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 crewman

What does crewman mean?

crewman means "any member of a ship's crew". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crewman?

crewman has 2 syllables: crew-man. The stress falls on "crew". In IPA it is /ˈkɹumən/.

What is another word for crewman?

Close synonyms include sailor, crew member. 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 crewman a common word?

crewman is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.