defaulter
/dɪˈfɒltə/noun
defaulter is a noun meaning “One who fails to fulfill an obligation or perform a task, especially a legal or financial one” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-F-A-U-L-T-E-R and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of defaulter is defaulters.
What does defaulter mean?
noun
- 1
One who fails to fulfill an obligation or perform a task, especially a legal or financial one.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce defaulter?
- UK /dɪˈfɒltə/
- UK /dɪˈfɔːltə/
Defaulter 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)-Wodencafe-defaulter.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of defaulter
- defaulters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is defaulter?
Defaulter appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th 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).
Defaulter in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | moroso, morosa, deudor moroso, prestatario moroso |
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 defaulter come from?
From default + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).