acceptor
/əkˈsɛp.tɚ/noun
acceptor is spelled A-C-C-E-P-T-O-R: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, acceptor means “One who accepts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of acceptor is acceptors.
How many letters and syllables are in acceptor?
| Letters | 8: A-C-C-E-P-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 39,336th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is acceptor?
Acceptor appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th 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).
How do you pronounce acceptor?
- UK /əkˈsɛptə(ɹ)/
- US /əkˈsɛp.tɚ/
- US /ækˈsɛp.tɚ/
Acceptor has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-acceptor.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with acceptor?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as acceptor from its last stressed vowel (/ɛptəɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of acceptor
- acceptors plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does acceptor mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who accepts.
- 2
One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
- 3
An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.
- 4
A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid
- 5
A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor
- 6
A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain
- 7
A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Acceptor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense one who accepts:
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 acceptor come from?
From Middle English acceptour, from Latin acceptor, with the meanings from accept.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).