policeman
po·lice·man/pəˈliːsmən/noun
policeman is spelled P-O-L-I-C-E-M-A-N: 9 letters and 3 syllables (po·lice·man). It appears 5.5 times per million words in written English, the 10,519th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, policeman means “A police officer, usually a male” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of policeman is policemen.
How many letters and syllables are in policeman?
| Letters | 9: P-O-L-I-C-E-M-A-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: po·lice·man |
| In writing | 5.5 times per million words; the 10,519th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 policeman?
Policeman appears 5.5 times per million words in written English, the 10,519th 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 policeman?
- /pəˈliːsmən/
Policeman has 3 syllables, split po·lice·man in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-policeman.ogg, En-uk-policeman.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of policeman
- policemen plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does policeman mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A police officer, usually a male.
- 2
A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis.
- 3
Any skipper of the genus Coeliades.
- 4
Synonym of enforcer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does policeman come from?
From police + -man.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).