policeman

Other forms of policeman

plural

policemans·

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 policeman

What does policeman mean?

policeman means "a member of a police force".

How many syllables are in policeman?

policeman has 3 syllables: poli-ce-man. The stress falls on "ce". In IPA it is /pəˈlismən/.

What is another word for policeman?

Close synonyms include police officer, officer. 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 policeman a common word?

policeman is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.