antipersonnel
adjective
antipersonnel is an adjective meaning “Designed to kill soldiers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-P-E-R-S-O-N-N-E-L and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antipersonnel mean?
adjective
- 1
Designed to kill soldiers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce antipersonnel?
Antipersonnel has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antipersonnel
- anti-personnel
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antipersonnel?
Antipersonnel appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Antipersonnel in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense designed to kill soldiers:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | antipersonnel |
| German | Antipersonen-, Schützenabwehr-, Personen-, Schützen- |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does antipersonnel come from?
From anti- + personnel.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).