sergeant

Other forms of sergeant

plural

sergeants·

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 sergeant

What does sergeant mean?

sergeant means "any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sergeant?

sergeant has 2 syllables: ser-geant. The stress falls on "ser". In IPA it is /ˈsɑɹdʒənt/.

What is another word for sergeant?

Close synonyms include police sergeant, serjeant-at-law, serjeant, sergeant-at-law. 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 sergeant a common word?

sergeant is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sergeant?

1 word rhymes with sergeant. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.