packman

Other forms of packman

plural

packmans·

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 packman

What does packman mean?

packman means "someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)".

How many syllables are in packman?

packman has 2 syllables: pack-man. The stress falls on "pack". In IPA it is /ˈpækmən/.

What is another word for packman?

Close synonyms include peddler, pedlar, hawker, pitchman. 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 packman a common word?

packman 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.