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Requester or requestor?

requester is a noun meaning “One who, or that which, makes a request”; requestor is a noun meaning “One who, or that which, makes a request”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) requester is about 2.6 times as common as requestor.

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What is the difference between requester and requestor?

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Part of speechnounnoun
Meaning

One who, or that which, makes a request

A dialog box that prompts the user to choose from a list

One who, or that which, makes a request

Examplenone recordednone recorded
Formsrequestersrequestors
Pronunciationnot recordednot recorded
In writingabout once in every 6 million wordsabout once in every 15 million words

Sources: requester and requestor in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Every current meaning of requester and requestor

requester

  1. 1

    noun One who, or that which, makes a request

  2. 2

    noun A dialog box that prompts the user to choose from a list

requestor

  1. 1

    noun One who, or that which, makes a request

Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.

Which is more common, requester or requestor?

requester appears about once in every 6 million words; requestor about once in every 15 million words.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How many people search requester vs requestor?

“requester vs requestor” is searched about 9,900 times a month on Google and 150 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“requestor vs requester”, “requester or requestor”).

Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.

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