midshipman
French, noun
midshipman is spelled M-I-D-S-H-I-P-M-A-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written French, the 279,127th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Midshipman is a French masculine noun meaning “midshipman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Officier de marine en formation du grade le plus bas (aspirant ou cadet), dans la Royal Navy, l’United States…”.
What does midshipman mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemidshipman
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Officier de marine en formation du grade le plus bas (aspirant ou cadet), dans la Royal Navy, l’United States Navy et de nombreuses marines du Commonwealth.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of midshipman
- midshipmans plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is midshipman in French?
midshipman appears about once in every 79 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).