# acceptor

> English word · Noun · IPA /əkˈsɛptə(ɹ)/ · frequency rank #39,178

## Definitions
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.

## Etymology
From Middle English acceptour, from Latin acceptor, with the meanings from accept.

## Easily confused with
- **accepts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/acceptor-vs-accepts)
- **ancestor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/acceptor-vs-ancestor)
- **accept** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/accept-vs-acceptor)
- **accepted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/accepted-vs-acceptor)

## Common misspellings (10)
`accepotr`, `accepptor`, `acceptorr`, `acceptro`, `accepttor`, `accetpor`, `accpetor`, `acecptor`, `aceptor`, `caceptor`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/acceptor