realtor
/ˈɹi(ə)l.təɹ/noun
realtor is spelled R-E-A-L-T-O-R: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, realtor means “A person or business that sells or leases out real estate, acting as an agent for the property owner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of realtor is realtors.
How many letters and syllables are in realtor?
| Letters | 7: R-E-A-L-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.8 times per million words; the 20,906th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is realtor?
Realtor appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th 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 realtor?
- US /ˈɹi(ə)l.təɹ/
- US /ˈɹi(ə)l.tɔɹ/
Realtor 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-realtor.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-realtor.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with realtor?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as realtor (/iltəɹ/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: relator.
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 realtor
- realtors plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does realtor mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
CanadaUSA person or business that sells or leases out real estate, acting as an agent for the property owner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Realtor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense dealer in real estate:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | agent immobilier, agente immobilière |
| German | Immobilienmakler, Immobilienmaklerin, Makler, Maklerin, Immobilienhändler, Immobilienhändlerin |
| Portuguese | corretor, corretora |
| Spanish | agente inmobiliario, agente inmobiliaria, fideicomisario, fideicomisaria |
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 realtor come from?
From real (in real estate) and -or. Coined by Charles N. Chadbourn in 1916, on the model of Latin agent nouns ending in -tor (such as actor, creator), to refer to real-estate professionals who are members of the National Association of Realtors, a trade association in the United States. Equivalent to realt(y) + -or.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).