# identifier

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #24,790

## Definitions
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.

## Etymology
From identify + -er.

## Easily confused with
- **identified** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/identified-vs-identifier)

## Common misspellings (14)
`dientifier`, `iddentifier`, `idenitfier`, `idenntifier`, `identfiier`, `identifeir`, `identiffier`, `identifierr`, `identifire`, `identiifer`, `identtifier`, `idetnifier`, `idnetifier`, `iedntifier`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/identifier