equator
/ɪˈkweɪ.tɚ/noun
equator is spelled E-Q-U-A-T-O-R: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,629th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, equator means “An imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemispheres” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of equator is equators.
How many letters and syllables are in equator?
| Letters | 7: E-Q-U-A-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.8 times per million words; the 20,629th 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 equator?
Equator appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,629th 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 equator?
- UK /ɪˈkweɪ.tə/
- US /ɪˈkweɪ.tɚ/
- US /iˈkweɪ.tɚ/
Equator 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-uk-equator.ogg, En-us-equator.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with equator?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as equator from its last stressed vowel (/eɪtəɹ/):
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 equator
- equators plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does equator mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemispheres.
- 2
A similar great circle on any sphere, especially on a celestial body, or on another reasonably symmetrical three-dimensional body.
- 3
The midline of any generally spherical object, such as a fruit or vegetable, that has identifiable poles.
Slice the onion through the equator.
- 4
The celestial equator.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Equator in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense circle around the earth:
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 equator come from?
From Late Latin (circulus) aequator (diei et noctis).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).