consumer
con·su·mer/kənˈsumɚ/noun
consumer is spelled C-O-N-S-U-M-E-R: 8 letters and 3 syllables (con·su·mer). It appears 36 times per million words in written English, the 2,669th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, consumer means “One who, or that which, consumes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of consumer is consumers.
How many letters and syllables are in consumer?
| Letters | 8: C-O-N-S-U-M-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: con·su·mer |
| In writing | 36 times per million words; the 2,669th 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 consumer?
Consumer appears 36 times per million words in written English, the 2,669th 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 consumer?
- UK /kənˈsjuːmə/
- UK /kənˈʃuːmə/
- US /kənˈsumɚ/
Consumer has 3 syllables, split con·su·mer in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-consumer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with consumer?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as consumer from its last stressed vowel (/uməɹ/):
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 consumer
- consumers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does consumer mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who, or that which, consumes.
- 2
Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.
This new system favours the consumer over the producer.
- 3
The consumer base of a product, service or business.
Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.
- 4
An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Consumer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person purchasing goods:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | consommateur, consommatrice |
| German | Konsument, Konsumentin, Verbraucher, Verbraucherin, Endverbraucher, Endverbraucherin |
| Portuguese | consumidor |
| Spanish | consumidor |
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.