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trailblazer

trail·blaz·er/ˈtɹeɪlˌbleɪzəɹ/noun

trailblazer is spelled T-R-A-I-L-B-L-A-Z-E-R: 11 letters and 3 syllables (trail·blaz·er). It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,703rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, trailblazer means “One who discovers or makes a new path or way through an untraversed region” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of trailblazer is trailblazers.

How many letters and syllables are in trailblazer?

Letters11: T-R-A-I-L-B-L-A-Z-E-R
Syllables3: trail·blaz·er
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 40,703rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 trailblazer?

Trailblazer appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,703rd 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 trailblazer?

  • UK /ˈtɹeɪlbleɪzə/
  • US /ˈtɹeɪlˌbleɪzəɹ/
  • Australia /ˈtɹæɪlˌblæɪzə/

Trailblazer has 3 syllables, split trail·blaz·er in writing.

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

Forms of trailblazer

  • trailblazers plural

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

What does trailblazer mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    One who discovers or makes a new path or way through an untraversed region.

  2. 2

    One who is the first to do something in a particular field; an innovator, a pioneer.

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

Trailblazer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpionnier, pionnière (one who discovers or makes a new path or way…), premier de cordée, visionnaire (one who is the first to do something in a…)
GermanVorreiter, Vorreiterin, Wegbereiter, Wegbereiterin (one who discovers or makes a new path or way…), Pionier (one who is the first to do something in a…)
Portuguesedesbravador (one who discovers or makes a new path or way…), pioneiro, pioneira (one who is the first to do something in a…)
Spanishpionero, pionera (one who discovers or makes a new path or way…), colonizador, colonizadora, colono, colona (one who is the first to do something in a…)

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 trailblazer come from?

From trail (noun) + blazer (noun).

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

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