wireman
/ˈwaɪə(ɹ)mən/noun
wireman is a noun meaning “Someone who works with wire; primarily someone who connects electric wiring” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-I-R-E-M-A-N and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 40 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of wireman is wiremen.
What does wireman mean?
noun
- 1
Someone who works with wire; primarily someone who connects electric wiring.
- 2
A person who sets up electronic surveillance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce wireman?
- /ˈwaɪə(ɹ)mən/
- /ˈwaɪə(ɹ)mæn/
Wireman has 2 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).
Forms of wireman
- wiremen plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is wireman?
Wireman appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th 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 wireman come from?
From wire + -man.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).