pollinator
/ˈpɒlɪˌneɪtə(ɹ)/noun
pollinator is spelled P-O-L-L-I-N-A-T-O-R. The wrong spelling people search most is polinator: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Pollinator is a noun meaning “the agent that pollinates a plant; often an insect”. The plural of pollinator is pollinators.
How many letters and syllables are in pollinator?
| Letters | 10: P-O-L-L-I-N-A-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 63,645th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, polinator, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 pollinator?
Pollinator is spelled P-O-L-L-I-N-A-T-O-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 15 of the searches for pollinator 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 pollinator?
Pollinator appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th 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 pollinator?
- /ˈpɒlɪˌneɪtə(ɹ)/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-pollinator.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-pollinator.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pollinator
- pollinators plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pollinator mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
the agent that pollinates a plant; often an insect
- 2
the plant that is the source of pollen for cross-pollination
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pollinator in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense agent:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pollinisateur |
| German | Bestäuber |
| Portuguese | polinizador |
| Spanish | polinizador |
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 pollinator come from?
From pollinate + -or.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).