moderator
/ˈmɒdəˌɹeɪtə(ɹ)/noun
moderator is spelled M-O-D-E-R-A-T-O-R: 9 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,896th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, moderator means “Someone who moderates” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of moderator is moderators.
How many letters and syllables are in moderator?
| Letters | 9: M-O-D-E-R-A-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.6 times per million words; the 16,896th 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 moderator?
Moderator appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,896th 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 moderator?
- /ˈmɒdəˌɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
Moderator 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)-Vealhurl-moderator.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of moderator
- moderators plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does moderator mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone who moderates.
- 2
An arbitrator or mediator.
- 3
The chair or president of a meeting, etc.
- 4
A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.
- 5
The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian church.
- 6
A substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission.
- 7
A device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
- 8
UKAn examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Moderator in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense someone who moderates:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | modérateur, modératrice |
| German | Moderator, Moderatorin |
| Portuguese | moderador, moderadora |
| Spanish | moderador, moderadora |
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 moderator come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin moderātor. First attested as Middle English moderatour. By surface analysis, moderate + -or.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).