Freshman-Freshmen | Commonly Confused Words

Freshman

/ˈfreʃmən/

A person in the first year of high school, college, or university.

Students in their first year of high school, college, or university.

Freshman refers to an individual who is in their first year of high school or college.
Freshmen is the plural form and refers to a group of people who are all in their first year of school.
The word freshman can be used as an adjective to describe something related to the first year students, but freshmen is only used as a noun.
Remember freshman with an a is singular, like man, while freshmen with e is plural, similar to men.
You use freshman when referring to one student, and freshmen when talking about more than one.