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competitor

/kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/noun

competitor is spelled C-O-M-P-E-T-I-T-O-R: 10 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 6.5 times per million words in written English, the 9,463rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, competitor means “A person or organization against whom one is competing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of competitor is competitors.

How many letters and syllables are in competitor?

Letters10: C-O-M-P-E-T-I-T-O-R
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing6.5 times per million words; the 9,463rd 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 competitor?

Competitor appears 6.5 times per million words in written English, the 9,463rd 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 competitor?

  • /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/

Competitor 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-competitor.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of competitor

  • competitors plural
  • competitour

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

What does competitor mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A person or organization against whom one is competing.

  2. 2

    A participant in a competition, especially in athletics.

  3. 3

    obsoletePartner, associate, one working with another toward a common goal.

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

Competitor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcompétiteur, compétitrice, concurrent, concurrente (person against whom one is competing)
GermanKonkurrent, Konkurrentin (person against whom one is competing), Wettkämpfer, Wettbewerbsteilnehmer (participant in a competition)
Portuguesecompetidor, adversário, concorrente (person against whom one is competing)
Spanishcontrincante (person against whom one is competing), competidor (participant in a competition)

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 competitor come from?

Borrowed from Middle French compétiteur, from Latin competitor.

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

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