controller
con·trol·ler/kənˈtɹoʊlɚ/noun
controller is spelled C-O-N-T-R-O-L-L-E-R, 3 syllables: con·trol·ler. The wrong spelling people search most is controler: about 620 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Controller is a noun meaning “One who controls something”. The plural of controller is controllers.
How many letters and syllables are in controller?
| Letters | 10: C-O-N-T-R-O-L-L-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: con·trol·ler |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,778th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, controler, about 620 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people 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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell controller?
Controller is spelled C-O-N-T-R-O-L-L-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure.
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 controller?
Controller appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th 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 controller?
- UK /kənˈtɹəʊlə/
- US /kənˈtɹoʊlɚ/
Controller has 3 syllables, split con·trol·ler in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-controller.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with controller
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).
What rhymes with controller?
11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as controller from its last stressed vowel (/oʊləɹ/):
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 controller
- controllers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does controller mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who controls something.
- 2
Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
- 3
The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
- 4
A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
- 5
A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.
- 6
An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
- 7
The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
- 8
The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)
The choice of controller is determined by the matrix verb. If, as in (30b) and (3la), the main verb does not subcategorize for an OBJ, then the controller is the matrix SUBJ. In this case the complement clause is interpreted as having the s
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Controller in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | contrôleur, contrôleuse , manette |
| German | Kontrolleur, Aufseher , Regler , Controller, Rechnungsprüfer, Buchprüfer |
| Portuguese | controlador , auditor, tesoureiro , controle , comando |
| Spanish | controlador, controladora , contralor, director administrativo, director financiero |
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 controller come from?
From Middle English countreroller, from Anglo-Norman contreroulour and Middle French contreroleur (French contrôleur), from Medieval Latin contrārotulātor, from *contrārotulāre (from which control). Doublet of comptroller. By surface analysis, control + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).