comptroller
/kəmpˈtɹoʊləɹ/noun
comptroller is spelled C-O-M-P-T-R-O-L-L-E-R: 11 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,420th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “comptroller vs controller” about 3,600 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, comptroller means “The chief accountant of a company or government” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of comptroller is comptrollers.
How many letters and syllables are in comptroller?
| Letters | 11: C-O-M-P-T-R-O-L-L-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.2 times per million words; the 26,420th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people 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); 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 common is comptroller?
Comptroller appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,420th 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 comptroller?
- /kəmpˈtɹoʊləɹ/
- /kəmˈtɹoʊləɹ/
Comptroller 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: En-us-controller.oga, En-us-comptroller.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with comptroller
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of comptroller
- comptrollers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does comptroller mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The chief accountant of a company or government.
The terms of the licence shall, in default of agreement, be settled by the comptroller.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate comptroller?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of comptroller: compt, compt..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does comptroller come from?
From late Middle English compteroller, a spelling variant of countreroller (from which controller) due to folk etymology: the word was thought to have an etymological connection with Middle French compte (“account”) (Middle French compteroleur is attested circa 1375). Originally the two spellings were equivalent and pronounced identically; the modern pronunciation with [mp] is based on the spelling.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).