Traveler or traveller?
In American English write traveler; in British and Commonwealth English, traveller. traveler is a noun meaning “US standard spelling of traveller”; traveller is a noun meaning “One who travels, especially to distant lands”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) traveler is about as common as traveller.
What is the difference between traveler and traveller?
| traveler | traveller | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | USUS standard spelling of traveller | One who travels, especially to distant lands UKSomeone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a fixed abode A member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Norway, formerly consisting of two clans: those of Romani descent ("the Greater Travellers", who spoke Romani… |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | travelers | travellers |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | /ˈtɹævələ/ /ˈtɹævlə/ /ˈtɹævəlɚ/ |
| Region | US | UK |
| In writing | 3.7 times per million words | 3.1 times per million words |
Sources: traveler and traveller 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 traveler and traveller
traveler
- 1
USUS standard spelling of traveller
traveller
- 1
One who travels, especially to distant lands
- 2
IrelandUKEllipsis of Irish Traveller, a member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Ireland
- 3
datedA salesman who travels from place to place on behalf of a company
- 4
A member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Norway, formerly consisting of two clans: those of Romani descent ("the Greater Travellers", who spoke Romani Traveller Norwegian) and those of Norwegian…
- 5
UKSomeone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a fixed abode
- 6
IrelandAlternative letter-case form of Traveller
- 7
A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process
- 8
One of the wires connecting the two members of a pair of three-way switches
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, traveler or traveller?
traveler appears 3.7 times per million words; traveller 3.1 times per million words.
traveler 3.7 times per million wordstraveller 3.1 times per 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 traveler vs traveller?
“traveler vs traveller” is searched about 4,400 times a month on Google (Bing reports no separate figure) in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“traveller vs traveler”, “traveler or traveller”).
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.