calculator
/kæl.kjə.leɪ.tɚ/noun
calculator is spelled C-A-L-C-U-L-A-T-O-R. The wrong spelling people search most is calculater: about 19,930 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 135 of all searches for the word. Calculator is a noun meaning “A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; (now usually) an electronic one…”. The plural of calculator is calculators.
How many letters and syllables are in calculator?
| Letters | 10: C-A-L-C-U-L-A-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.6 times per million words; the 13,695th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, calculater, about 19,930 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 calculator?
Calculator is spelled C-A-L-C-U-L-A-T-O-R. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 105 of the searches for calculator 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 calculator?
Calculator appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th 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 calculator?
- /ˈkæl.kjə.leɪ.tə(ɹ)/
- US /kæl.kjə.leɪ.tɚ/
- US [ˈkʰæɫ.kjəˌleɪ̯.ɾɚ]
Calculator has 4 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-calculator.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of calculator
- calculators plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does calculator mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; (now usually) an electronic one specifically.
electronic calculator; pocket calculator
- 2
A person who performs mathematical calculation.
During the war, his grandmother had worked at the Bletchley Park decoding station as a calculator.
- 3
A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
Near-synonyms: schemer, plotter; manipulator
- 4
obsoleteA set of mathematical tables.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate calculator?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of calculator: cal, calc, calcu.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Calculator in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | calculatrice, calculette , tables |
| German | Rechner, Taschenrechner |
| Portuguese | calculadora , calculador, calculista |
| Spanish | calculador, calculadora |
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.