councilperson
noun
councilperson is a noun meaning “A member of a council, often a city council or a town council” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-U-N-C-I-L-P-E-R-S-O-N, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of councilperson is councilpersons or councilpeople.
What does councilperson mean?
noun
- 1
A member of a council, often a city council or a town council.
Near-synonyms: councilman, councilwoman, selectperson, selectman, selectwoman
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of councilperson
- councilpersons plural
- councilpeople plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is councilperson?
Councilperson appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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).
Where does councilperson come from?
From council + person.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).