steersman
/ˈstiɹz.mən/noun
steersman is a noun meaning “One who steers a ship or other vessel; the helmsman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-E-E-R-S-M-A-N and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of steersman is steersmen.
What does steersman mean?
noun
- 1
One who steers a ship or other vessel; the helmsman.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce steersman?
- UK /ˈstɪəz.mən/
- US /ˈstiɹz.mən/
- US /ˈstɪɹz.mən/
Steersman has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-steersman.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of steersman
- steersmen plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is steersman?
Steersman appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd 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 steersman come from?
From steer + -s- + -man.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).