yachtsman
noun
yachtsman is a noun meaning “A man who sails a yacht” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Y-A-C-H-T-S-M-A-N and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of yachtsman is yachtsmen.
What does yachtsman mean?
noun
- 1
A man who sails a yacht.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce yachtsman?
Yachtsman 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-yachtsman.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of yachtsman
- yachtsmen plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is yachtsman?
Yachtsman appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 83,271st 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).
Yachtsman in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense man who sails a yacht:
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 yachtsman come from?
From yacht + -s- + -man.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).