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fieldworker

noun

fieldworker is a noun meaning “A person who does fieldwork” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-E-L-D-W-O-R-K-E-R, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fieldworker is fieldworkers.

What does fieldworker mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A person who does fieldwork.

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

Forms of fieldworker

  • fieldworkers plural

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

How common is fieldworker?

Fieldworker appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th 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).

Where does fieldworker come from?

From field + worker.

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