fieldsman

Questions about fieldsman

What does fieldsman mean?

fieldsman means "a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting".

How many syllables are in fieldsman?

fieldsman has 2 syllables and divides as field-sman under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for fieldsman?

Close synonyms include fielder. 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 fieldsman a common word?

fieldsman 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.