infantryman

Other forms of infantryman

plural

infantrymans·

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 infantryman

What does infantryman mean?

infantryman means "fights on foot with small arms".

How many syllables are in infantryman?

infantryman has 4 syllables: in-fan-try-man. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪnfæntɹimən/.

What is another word for infantryman?

Close synonyms include marcher, foot soldier, footslogger. 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 infantryman a common word?

infantryman is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.