entrepreneur
/ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/noun
entrepreneur is spelled E-N-T-R-E-P-R-E-N-E-U-R. The wrong spelling people search most is entreprenuer: about 300 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 30 of all searches for the word. Entrepreneur is a noun meaning “A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its…”. The plural of entrepreneur is entrepreneurs.
How many letters and syllables are in entrepreneur?
| Letters | 12: E-N-T-R-E-P-R-E-N-E-U-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.8 times per million words; the 7,224th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, entreprenuer, about 300 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); 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 entrepreneur?
Entrepreneur is spelled E-N-T-R-E-P-R-E-N-E-U-R. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 18 of the searches for entrepreneur 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 entrepreneur?
Entrepreneur appears 9.8 times per million words in written English, the 7,224th 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 entrepreneur?
- UK /ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/
- /ˌɑ̃.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/
- US /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/
Entrepreneur has 4 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-entrepreneur.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with entrepreneur?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as entrepreneur from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹ/):
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 entrepreneur
- entrepreneurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does entrepreneur mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks.
- 2
archaicA person who organizes concerts, plays, or other entertainments; the manager of a theatre or similar venue; an impresario.
- 3
rareA person who serves as an intermediary; a middleman; a go-between.
- 4
obsoleteA person who manages an artist or performer; an agent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Entrepreneur in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | entrepreneur, entrepreneuse |
| German | Unternehmer, Unternehmerin, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurin |
| Portuguese | empreendedor, empreendedora |
| Spanish | emprendedor, emprendedor comercial, comerciante |
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 entrepreneur come from?
Borrowed from French entrepreneur (“one who undertakes or manages”), from Middle French entrepreneur, from entreprendre (“to undertake”) + -eur.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).