chairman
chair·man/ˈtʃɛɹ.mən/noun, verb
chairman is spelled C-H-A-I-R-M-A-N, 2 syllables: chair·man. The wrong spelling people search most is chariman: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 185 of all searches for the word. Chairman is a noun meaning “A person presiding over a meeting, sometimes especially a man. (Compare chairwoman, chairperson, chair.)”. The plural of chairman is chairmen.
How many letters and syllables are in chairman?
| Letters | 8: C-H-A-I-R-M-A-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: chair·man |
| In writing | 63 times per million words; the 1,668th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, chariman, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell chairman?
Chairman is spelled C-H-A-I-R-M-A-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 184 of the searches for chairman in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is chairman?
Chairman appears 63 times per million words in written English, the 1,668th 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 chairman?
- UK /ˈtʃɛːmən/
- US /ˈtʃɛɹ.mən/
Chairman has 2 syllables, split chair·man in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-chairman.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with chairman?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as chairman from its last stressed vowel (/ɛɹmən/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of chairman
- chairmen plural
- chairmans present, singular, he/she/it
- chairmaning participle, present
- chairmanning participle, present
- chairmaned participle, past
- chairmanned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does chairman mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person presiding over a meeting, sometimes especially a man. (Compare chairwoman, chairperson, chair.)
- 2
The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
- 3
Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.
verb
- 1
To serve as chairman.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate chairman?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of chairman: chm., chmn, chmn..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Chairman in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | secrétaire général, président |
| German | Vorsitzender, Vorsitzende |
| Portuguese | presidente (da assembleia) , presidente |
| Spanish | presidente, secretario general |
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 chairman come from?
From chair + -man.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).