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weatherman

noun

weatherman is spelled W-E-A-T-H-E-R-M-A-N: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,660th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, weatherman means “A person, especially a male one, who reports the weather conditions or forecasts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of weatherman is weathermen.

How many letters and syllables are in weatherman?

Letters10: W-E-A-T-H-E-R-M-A-N
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 41,660th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is weatherman?

Weatherman appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,660th 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 weatherman?

  • US

Weatherman has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

Forms of weatherman

  • weathermen plural
  • weather man

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

What does weatherman mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A person, especially a male one, who reports the weather conditions or forecasts.

noun

as Weatherman
  1. 1

    USA member of the Weather Underground.

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

Weatherman in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense weather forecaster:

LanguageWords
Frenchmétéorologue
GermanWetteransager, Wetterfrosch, Meteorologe
Spanishmeteorólogo

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 weatherman come from?

From weather + -man.

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

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