developer
de·vel·op·er/dɪˈvɛləpɚ/noun
developer is spelled D-E-V-E-L-O-P-E-R, 4 syllables: de·vel·op·er. The wrong spelling people search most is developper: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 222 of all searches for the word. Developer is a noun meaning “A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products”. The plural of developer is developers.
How many letters and syllables are in developer?
| Letters | 9: D-E-V-E-L-O-P-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: de·vel·op·er |
| In writing | 16 times per million words; the 5,121st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, developper, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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 developer?
Developer is spelled D-E-V-E-L-O-P-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 223 of the searches for developer in either form.
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 developer?
Developer appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,121st 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 developer?
- UK /dɪˈvɛləpə(ɹ)/
- US /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/
- /dəˈvɛləpɚ/
Developer has 4 syllables, split de·vel·op·er in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-developer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with developer?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as developer (/ɛləpəɹ/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: redevelop.
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 developer
- developers plural
- dev
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does developer mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products.
- 2
A real estate developer; a person or company who prepares a parcel of land for sale, or creates structures on that land.
- 3
A film developer; a person who uses chemicals to create photographs from photograph negatives.
- 4
A liquid used in the chemical processing of traditional photos.
- 5
A reagent used to produce an ingrain color by its action upon some substance on the fiber.
- 6
A software developer; a person or company who creates or modifies computer software.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate developer?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of developer: dev, dev..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Developer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | concepteur, développeur, créateur , promoteur , révélateur , développateur |
| German | Entwickler, Entwicklerin , Projektentwickler, Bauunternehmer |
| Portuguese | desenvolvedor, desenvolvedora , revelador |
| Spanish | desarrollador , promotor, constructor , revelador , desarrolladora |
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 developer come from?
From develop + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).