spaceman

Other forms of spaceman

plural

spacemans·

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 spaceman

What does spaceman mean?

spaceman means "a person trained to travel in a spacecraft".

How many syllables are in spaceman?

spaceman has 3 syllables: spa-ce-man. The stress falls on "spa".

What is another word for spaceman?

Close synonyms include astronaut, cosmonaut. 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 spaceman a common word?

spaceman 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.