publisher
/ˈpʌblɪʃɚ/noun
publisher is spelled P-U-B-L-I-S-H-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is pubisher: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 500 of all searches for the word. Publisher is a noun meaning “A person or (especially) a company who publishes, especially books”. The plural of publisher is publishers.
How many letters and syllables are in publisher?
| Letters | 9: P-U-B-L-I-S-H-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,778th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 23; the most searched, pubisher, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell publisher?
Publisher is spelled P-U-B-L-I-S-H-E-R. 23 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 64 of the searches for publisher 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 publisher?
Publisher appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th 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 publisher?
- US /ˈpʌblɪʃɚ/
Publisher has 3 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: En-us-publisher.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with publisher?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as publisher (/ʌblɪʃəɹ/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: republish.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of publisher
- publishers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does publisher mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person or (especially) a company who publishes, especially books.
- 2
A system or component that allows other components (subscribers) to receive notifications of something, such as an event.
- 3
A preacher who is a Jehovah's Witness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate publisher?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of publisher: pub, publ, publ..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Publisher in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense one who publishes, especially books – see also publishing house:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | éditeur, éditrice, maison d'édition, publicateur, publicatrice |
| German | Herausgeber, Herausgeberin, Verlag |
| Portuguese | editor, editora, editores |
| Spanish | editor, editorial, publicador |
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 publisher come from?
From publish + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).