collector
col·lec·tor/kəˈlɛk.tɚ/noun
collector is spelled C-O-L-L-E-C-T-O-R: 9 letters and 3 syllables (col·lec·tor). It appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, collector means “A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of collector is collectors.
How many letters and syllables are in collector?
| Letters | 9: C-O-L-L-E-C-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: col·lec·tor |
| In writing | 8.1 times per million words; the 8,146th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is collector?
Collector appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th 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 collector?
- US /kəˈlɛk.tɚ/
- UK /kəˈlɛk.tə(ɹ)/
Collector has 3 syllables, split col·lec·tor in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-collector.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with collector?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as collector from its last stressed vowel (/ɛktəɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of collector
- collectors plural
- collecter
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does collector mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
- 2
A person who is employed to collect payments.
She works for the government as a tax collector.
- 3
A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
- 4
The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
- 5
A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
- 6
One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
- 7
A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Collector in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | collectionneur, collectionneuse , percepteur, encaisseur, collecteur |
| German | Sammler, Sammlerin , Kassierer , Kollektor |
| Portuguese | colecionador , coletor , colector |
| Spanish | coleccionista , colector, recaudador |
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 collector come from?
Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).