cosplayer
noun
cosplayer is a noun meaning “One who takes part in cosplay” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-S-P-L-A-Y-E-R, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cosplayer is cosplayers.
What does cosplayer mean?
noun
- 1
One who takes part in cosplay.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cosplayer?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-cosplayer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cosplayer
- cosplayers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cosplayer?
Cosplayer appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,714th 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).
Cosplayer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person taking part in cosplay:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cosplayeur, costumadier |
| Portuguese | cosplayer |
| Spanish | cosplayer |
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 cosplayer come from?
From Japanese コスプレイヤー (kosupureiyā). Equivalent to cos- + player or cosplay + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).