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deliver

de·liv·er/dɪˈlɪv.ɚ/verb, adjective

deliver is spelled D-E-L-I-V-E-R, 3 syllables: de·liv·er. The wrong spelling people search most is deliever: about 150 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 33 of all searches for the word. Deliver is a verb meaning “To set free from restraint or danger”.

How many letters and syllables are in deliver?

Letters7: D-E-L-I-V-E-R
Syllables3: de·liv·er
In writing35 times per million words; the 2,725th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, deliever, about 150 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell deliver?

Deliver is spelled D-E-L-I-V-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 33 of the searches for deliver in either form.

deliverthe right spelling4,820 searches a month
delieveran extra e150 searches a month

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.

How common is deliver?

Deliver appears 35 times per million words in written English, the 2,725th 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 deliver?

  • UK /dɪˈlɪv.ə(ɹ)/
  • US /dɪˈlɪv.ɚ/
  • /ˈɖɛlɪvə(r)/

Deliver has 3 syllables, split de·liv·er in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-deliver.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with deliver?

7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as deliver from its last stressed vowel (/ɪvəɹ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: livered.

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 deliver

  • delivers present, singular, he/she/it
  • delivering participle, present
  • delivered participle, past
  • more deliver comparative
  • most deliver superlative

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

What does deliver mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To set free from restraint or danger.

    The hostage was delivered from her captors and thus preserved from any danger.

  2. 2

    To assist in the birth of.

    the doctor delivered the baby

  3. 3

    To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).

    the duchess was delivered of a son

  4. 4

    To give birth to.

    she delivered a baby boy yesterday

  5. 5

    To free from or disburden of anything.

  6. 6

    To bring or transport something to its destination.

    deliver a package

  7. 7

    To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.

    deliver the thief to the police

  8. 8

    informalTo produce what is expected or required.

    deliver on a promise

adjective

  1. 1

    rareCapable, agile, or active.

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

Deliver in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdélivrer (to set free), accoucher (to give birth), livrer (to bring or transport something to its…), remettre (to hand over or surrender), tenir ses promesses (to meet expectations)
Germanerlösen, befreien (to set free), gebären (to give birth), liefern, abliefern (to bring or transport something to its…)
Portugueselibertar (to set free), dar à luz (to give birth), entregar (to bring or transport something to its…), parir (to assist in giving birth)
Spanishentregar, diñar, deliverar, repartir (to bring or transport something to its…)

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 deliver come from?

From Middle English deliveren, from Anglo-Norman and Old French delivrer, from Latin dē + līberō (“to set free”). Compare typologically dispatch, analyzable as dis- + impeach, from Latin impedicō (also akin to impede).

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

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