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contributor

/kənˈtɹɪb.jə.tɚ/noun

contributor is spelled C-O-N-T-R-I-B-U-T-O-R. The wrong spelling people search most is contributer: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Contributor is a noun meaning “A benefactor; someone who donates to charity or some cause”. The plural of contributor is contributors.

How many letters and syllables are in contributor?

Letters11: C-O-N-T-R-I-B-U-T-O-R
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing5.2 times per million words; the 10,843rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, contributer, about 120 Bing searches a month (all of them)

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 do you spell contributor?

Contributor is spelled C-O-N-T-R-I-B-U-T-O-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure.

contributorthe right spelling
contributere in place of o120 searches a month

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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is contributor?

Contributor appears 5.2 times per million words in written English, the 10,843rd 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 contributor?

  • US /kənˈtɹɪb.jə.tɚ/
  • US /-ju-/
  • UK /kənˈtɹɪb.jə.tə/

Contributor 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-contributor.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of contributor

  • contributors plural
  • contributour

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

What does contributor mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A benefactor; someone who donates to charity or some cause.

    I am a longstanding financial contributor to Amnesty International.

  2. 2

    A person who backs, supports or champions a cause, activity or institution.

    He was a regular contributor to Greenpeace protests.

  3. 3

    A person (or thing) instrumental in the creation or growth of something.

    Methane is a major contributor to global warming

  4. 4

    A person who produces articles published in a newspaper, magazine, online publication, etc.

    William Safire has been a notable contributor to the op-ed pages of The New York Times for many years.

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

How do you abbreviate contributor?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of contributor: contbr..

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

Contributor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcontributeur (a benefactor; someone who gives to charity or…), soumissionnaire (a person who contributes articles to a…)
GermanSpender, Beitragszahler (a benefactor; someone who gives to charity or…), Unterstützer, Mitwirkender (a person who backs, supports or champions a…), Beitragender, Mitmacher (a person or thing instrumental in the creation…)
Portuguesebenemérito (a benefactor; someone who gives to charity or…), adepto, contribuidor, contribuinte (a person who backs, supports or champions a…)
Spanishdonante, contribuidor (a benefactor; someone who gives to charity or…), colaborador, contribuyente (a person who backs, supports or champions a…)

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 contributor come from?

From Anglo-Norman contributour (from Latin contribuō); equivalent to contribute + -or.

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

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