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eliminator

noun

eliminator is spelled E-L-I-M-I-N-A-T-O-R: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,714th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, eliminator means “One who, or that which, eliminates” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of eliminator is eliminators.

How many letters and syllables are in eliminator?

Letters10: E-L-I-M-I-N-A-T-O-R
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 58,714th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is eliminator?

Eliminator appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,714th 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).

Forms of eliminator

  • eliminators plural

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

What does eliminator mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    One who, or that which, eliminates.

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

Eliminator in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense one who, or that which, eliminates:

LanguageWords
Frenchéliminateur, éliminatrice
Spanisheliminador, eliminadora

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 eliminator come from?

From eliminate + -or.

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

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