schoolchild

school·child/ˈskuːlt͡ʃaɪld/noun

schoolchild is a noun meaning “A young person attending school or of an age to attend school” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-C-H-O-O-L-C-H-I-L-D and has 2 syllables (school·child), and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of schoolchild is schoolchildren.

What does schoolchild mean?

noun

1
A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.

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

How do you pronounce schoolchild?

/ˈskuːlt͡ʃaɪld/
/ˈsku.əlt͡ʃaɪld/

Schoolchild has 2 syllables, split school·child in writing.

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

Forms of schoolchild

schoolchildren plural
school-child
school child

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

How common is schoolchild?

Schoolchild appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Schoolchild in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense young person attending school or of an age to attend school:

Language	Words
French	élève, écolier, écolière
German	Schulkind, Schüler, Schülerin
Portuguese	estudante, aluno
Spanish	escolar, alumno, alumna, colegiala, colegial

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 schoolchild come from?

From school + child.

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