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triggerman

noun

triggerman is spelled T-R-I-G-G-E-R-M-A-N: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, triggerman means “A hired gunman; a hitman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of triggerman is triggermen.

How many letters and syllables are in triggerman?

Letters10: T-R-I-G-G-E-R-M-A-N
In writingabout once in every 30 million words; the 167,786th 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 triggerman?

Triggerman appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th 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 triggerman?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-triggerman.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of triggerman

  • triggermen plural
  • trigger man

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

What does triggerman mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    USslangA hired gunman; a hitman.

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

Where does triggerman come from?

From trigger + man.

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

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