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counsellor

noun

counsellor is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of counselor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-U-N-S-E-L-L-O-R and has 3 syllables, and it appears 2.1 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of counsellor is counsellors.

What does counsellor mean?

noun

  1. 1

    CanadaUKAlternative spelling of counselor.

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

How do you pronounce counsellor?

    Counsellor has 3 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).

    Forms of counsellor

    • counsellors plural

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

    How common is counsellor?

    Counsellor appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th 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 counsellor

    Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

    counsellor vs counselor0 B

    Also written: counselor.

    Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).