infantryman
noun
infantryman is spelled I-N-F-A-N-T-R-Y-M-A-N: 11 letters and 4 syllables. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,838th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, infantryman means “a soldier employed in an infantry role” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of infantryman is infantrymen.
How many letters and syllables are in infantryman?
| Letters | 11: I-N-F-A-N-T-R-Y-M-A-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 60,838th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is infantryman?
Infantryman appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,838th 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 infantryman?
Infantryman has 4 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-infantryman.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of infantryman
- infantrymen plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does infantryman mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
a soldier employed in an infantry role
- 2
a male soldier of the infantry
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Infantryman in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense soldier who fights on foot:
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 infantryman come from?
From infantry + man.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).