imitator
noun
imitator is spelled I-M-I-T-A-T-O-R. The wrong spelling people search most is immitator: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Imitator is a noun meaning “A person who imitates or apes another”. The plural of imitator is imitators.
How many letters and syllables are in imitator?
| Letters | 8: I-M-I-T-A-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 77,666th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, immitator, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell imitator?
Imitator is spelled I-M-I-T-A-T-O-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for imitator 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 imitator?
Imitator appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 77,666th 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 imitator?
- US
Imitator 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-imitator.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of imitator
- imitators plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does imitator mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person who imitates or apes another.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Imitator in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense one who imitates another:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | imitateur |
| German | Nachahmer, Nachahmerin, Epigone, Epigonin, Nachäffer, Nachäfferin |
| Spanish | imitador |
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 imitator come from?
From French imitateur, derived from Latin imitātor, equivalent to imitate + -or.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).