divisor
/dɪˈvaɪ.zɚ/noun
divisor is spelled D-I-V-I-S-O-R: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,063rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, divisor means “In an expression involving division, the number by which another number is being divided” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of divisor is divisors.
How many letters and syllables are in divisor?
| Letters | 7: D-I-V-I-S-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 58,063rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 divisor?
Divisor appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,063rd 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 divisor?
- UK /dɪˈvaɪ.zə(ɹ)/
- US /dɪˈvaɪ.zɚ/
Divisor 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: En-us-divisor.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with divisor?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as divisor from its last stressed vowel (/aɪzəɹ/):
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 divisor
- divisors plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does divisor mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
In an expression involving division, the number by which another number is being divided.
In "42 ÷ 3" the divisor is the 3.
- 2
An integer that divides another integer an integral number of times, the former being called a divisor of the latter.
10 is a divisor of 100, but not of 101.
- 3
A ring element which can be multiplied (by some other ring element) to yield a third ring element, the first being called a divisor of the third. If the ring is noncommutative, then one specifies whether a divisor is left, right, or two-sided.
- 4
An element of the free abelian group on the points of the space.
- 5
A Weil divisor: an element of the free abelian group on the codimension-1 subvarieties (or subschemes).
- 6
A Cartier divisor; see Cartier divisors on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Divisor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense arithmetic: a number or expression:
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.