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bondman

noun

bondman is spelled B-O-N-D-M-A-N: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bondman means “A man who is bound in servitude” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bondman is bondmen.

How many letters and syllables are in bondman?

Letters7: B-O-N-D-M-A-N
In writingabout once in every 45 million words; the 206,808th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is bondman?

Bondman appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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).

How do you pronounce bondman?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-bondman.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of bondman

  • bondmen plural
  • bondsman

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does bondman mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A man who is bound in servitude.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Bondman in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense man bound in servitude:

LanguageWords
Frenchesclave, serf

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 bondman come from?

From Middle English bondman; equivalent to bond + -man.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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