workmate
noun
workmate is a noun meaning “Somebody with whom one works; a coworker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-O-R-K-M-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of workmate is workmates.
What does workmate mean?
noun
- 1
Somebody with whom one works; a coworker.
He loved going to the boozer for lunch with his workmates.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce workmate?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-workmate.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of workmate
- workmates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is workmate?
Workmate appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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 workmate come from?
From work + -mate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).