administrator
/ədˈmɪn.ɪ.stɹeɪ.tɚ/noun
administrator is spelled A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-R-A-T-O-R. The wrong spelling people search most is adminstrator: about 360 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 115 of all searches for the word. Administrator is a noun meaning “One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial…”. The plural of administrator is administrators.
How many letters and syllables are in administrator?
| Letters | 13: A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-R-A-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,347th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, adminstrator, about 360 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell administrator?
Administrator is spelled A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-R-A-T-O-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 115 of the searches for administrator in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is administrator?
Administrator appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th 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 administrator?
- UK /ədˈmɪn.ɪ.stɹeɪ.tə/
- US /ədˈmɪn.ɪ.stɹeɪ.tɚ/
Administrator has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-administrator.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of administrator
- administrators plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does administrator mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.
- 2
A person who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority
For quotations using this term, see Citations:administrator.
- 3
One who is responsible for software installation, management, information and maintenance of a computer or network.
noun
- 1
UKThe queen's representative in some Commonwealth territories, comparable to a Governor General.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate administrator?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of administrator: Adm'r, admr..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Administrator in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | administrateur, administratrice, gestionnaire, gérant, gérante |
| German | Verwalter, Verwalterin, Verwaltungsleiter, Sachbearbeiter, Administrator , Nachlassverwalter |
| Portuguese | administrador, administradora , admin |
| Spanish | administrador, administradora , albacea |
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.