councillor
noun
councillor is spelled C-O-U-N-C-I-L-L-O-R. The wrong spelling people search most is councellor: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Councillor is a noun meaning “A member of a council”. The plural of councillor is councillors.
How do you spell councillor?
Councillor is spelled C-O-U-N-C-I-L-L-O-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for councillor in either form.
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.
What does councillor mean?
noun
- 1
A member of a council.
- 2
In particular, a representative elected to a local authority, such as a city council: a city councillor.
noun
- 1
The title for someone elected to the role of councillor in a local council.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of councillor
- councillors plural
- councilor
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is councillor?
Councillor appears 4.9 times per million words in written English, the 11,373rd 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).
Words people confuse with councillor
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: councilor.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
How do you abbreviate councillor?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of councillor: cllr.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Councillor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense member of a city council:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | conseiller, conseillère, conseiller municipal |
| German | Stadtrat, Gemeinderat, Ratsmitglied |
| Portuguese | vereador, vereadora, conselheiro, conselheira |
| Spanish | concejal, regidor, regidora, edil, munícipe, conceller |
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 councillor come from?
Alteration of counsellor, by assimilation with council. By surface analysis, council + -or.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).