fieldhand

Other forms of fieldhand

plural

fieldhands·

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 fieldhand

What does fieldhand mean?

fieldhand means "a hired hand on a farm".

How many syllables are in fieldhand?

fieldhand has 2 syllables: field-hand. The stress falls on "field".

What is another word for fieldhand?

Close synonyms include farmhand, field hand, farm worker. 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 fieldhand a common word?

fieldhand 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.