pollster
/ˈpoʊlstɚ/noun
pollster is a noun meaning “A professional who conducts or analyzes opinion polls” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-L-L-S-T-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pollster is pollsters.
What does pollster mean?
noun
- 1
A professional who conducts or analyzes opinion polls.
Trump didn't like the results of the polls, so he fired the pollsters.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pollster?
- US /ˈpoʊlstɚ/
Pollster has 2 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-pollster.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pollster
- pollsters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pollster?
Pollster appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 54,808th 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).
Pollster in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who conducts polls:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sondeur, enquêteur, enquêtrice |
| German | Meinungsforscher |
| Portuguese | pesquisador |
| Spanish | encuestador |
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 pollster come from?
From poll + -ster.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).