# attorney

> English word · Noun · IPA /əˈtɜː(ɹ)ni/ · frequency rank #2,060

## Definitions
1. A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.
2. An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf in accordance with that person's instructions.
3. One such who practised in the courts of the common law.
4. A solicitor.
5. An honorific given to lawyers and notaries public, or those holders by profession who also do other jobs. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Atty.
6. Clusia spp.
7. A prosecutor.

## Etymology
From Middle English attourne, from Old French atorné, past participle of atorner, atourner, aturner (“to attorn”), in the sense of "one appointed or constituted".

## Common misspellings (10)
`atorney`, `atotrney`, `attonrey`, `attoreny`, `attorneyy`, `attornney`, `attornye`, `attorrney`, `attroney`, `tatorney`

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