director
di·rec·tor/dɪˈɹɛk.tə(ɹ)/noun
director is spelled D-I-R-E-C-T-O-R: 8 letters and 3 syllables (di·rec·tor). It appears 141 times per million words in written English, the 737th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, director means “One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of director is directors.
How many letters and syllables are in director?
| Letters | 8: D-I-R-E-C-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: di·rec·tor |
| In writing | 141 times per million words; the 737th 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; 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 director?
Director appears 141 times per million words in written English, the 737th 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 director?
- UK /dɪˈɹɛk.tə(ɹ)/
- UK /daɪˈɹɛk.tə(ɹ)/
- UK /daɪ̯əˈɹɛk.tə(ɹ)/
Director has 3 syllables, split di·rec·tor in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-director.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with director?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as director from its last stressed vowel (/ɛktə/, British pronunciation):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: creditor.
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 director
- directors plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does director mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).
- 2
A member of a board of directors.
[...] the confusion between directors who know nothing and managers who know everything [...].
- 3
A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide.
- 4
That which directs or orientates something.
- 5
A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
- 6
The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.
- 7
A component of a Yagi–Uda antenna.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate director?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of director: Dir., dir.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Director in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense supervisor, manager – see also film director:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | directeur, directrice, régisseur, régisseuse |
| German | Direktor, Direktorin, Regisseur, Regisseurin |
| Portuguese | diretor, diretora |
| Spanish | director, directora |
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 director come from?
Borrowed from Middle French directeur and its source Late Latin dīrēctōrem, from Latin dīrēctus. By surface analysis, direct + -or.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).