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campaigner

/kæmˈpeɪnə(ɹ)/noun

campaigner is spelled C-A-M-P-A-I-G-N-E-R: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,918th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, campaigner means “A person who has served in a military campaign” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of campaigner is campaigners.

How many letters and syllables are in campaigner?

Letters10: C-A-M-P-A-I-G-N-E-R
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.0 times per million words; the 28,918th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is campaigner?

Campaigner appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,918th 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 campaigner?

  • /kæmˈpeɪnə(ɹ)/

Campaigner has 3 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-campaigner.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-campaigner.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of campaigner

  • campaigners plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does campaigner mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A person who has served in a military campaign.

  2. 2

    A military veteran.

  3. 3

    A person who campaigns for a person running for political office or works, or supports, in an organised and active way towards a goal; an activist.

  4. 4

    Someone with experience in a certain field.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Campaigner in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense a person who works in an organised and active way towards, or supports, a goal:

LanguageWords
GermanAktivist, Aktivistin

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 campaigner come from?

From campaign (verb) + -er (agent noun suffix) or from campaign (noun) + -er (occupational suffix).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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