creditor
/ˈkɹɛdɪtɚ/noun
creditor is spelled C-R-E-D-I-T-O-R: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, creditor means “A person to whom a debt is owed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of creditor is creditors.
How many letters and syllables are in creditor?
| Letters | 8: C-R-E-D-I-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 25,367th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is creditor?
Creditor appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th 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 creditor?
- UK /ˈkɹɛdɪtə/
- US /ˈkɹɛdɪtɚ/
Creditor 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-creditor.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with creditor?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as creditor from its last stressed vowel (/ɛdɪtəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: director.
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 creditor
- creditors plural
- creditour
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does creditor mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person to whom a debt is owed.
The creditor demanded immediate payment.
- 2
One who gives credence to something; a believer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate creditor?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of creditor: cr.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Creditor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a person to whom a debt is owed:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | créancier, créancière |
| German | Gläubiger, Kreditor |
| Portuguese | credor |
| Spanish | acreedor, acreedora |
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 creditor come from?
From Middle English creditour, from Anglo-Norman creditour, from Latin crēditor, from crēditum (“loan”), from crēditus, perfect passive participle of crēdō (“lend”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).