identifier
noun
identifier is spelled I-D-E-N-T-I-F-I-E-R: 10 letters and 5 syllables. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, identifier means “Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of identifier is identifiers.
How many letters and syllables are in identifier?
| Letters | 10: I-D-E-N-T-I-F-I-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 24,745th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is identifier?
Identifier appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th 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 identifier?
- US
Identifier has 5 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-identifier.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of identifier
- identifiers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does identifier mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
- 2
Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
- 3
One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
- 4
A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).
- 5
A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.
- 6
A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
- 7
A primary key.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate identifier?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of identifier: ID, id..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Identifier in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | identificateur , identifiant |
| German | Identifikator, Kennzeichen |
| Portuguese | identificador |
| Spanish | identificador |
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 identifier come from?
From identify + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).