pitman

Other forms of pitman

plural

pitmans·

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 pitman

What does pitman mean?

pitman means "English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pitman?

pitman has 2 syllables: pit-man. The stress falls on "pit". In IPA it is /ˈpɪtmən/.

What is another word for pitman?

Close synonyms include Sir Isaac Pitman, coal miner, collier. 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 pitman a common word?

pitman 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.