receiver
/ɹəˈsi.vɚ/noun
receiver is spelled R-E-C-E-I-V-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is reciever: about 780 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Receiver is a noun meaning “An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer”. The plural of receiver is receivers.
How many letters and syllables are in receiver?
| Letters | 8: R-E-C-E-I-V-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,138th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, reciever, about 780 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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 receiver?
Receiver is spelled R-E-C-E-I-V-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for receiver 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 receiver?
Receiver appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,138th 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 receiver?
- US /ɹəˈsi.vɚ/
- UK /ɹɪˈsiː.və/
Receiver 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-receiver.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with receiver?
11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as receiver from its last stressed vowel (/ivəɹ/):
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 receiver
- receivers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does receiver mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.
- 2
A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient.
- 3
A person who accepts stolen goods.
- 4
A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
- 5
An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
- 6
A person who attempts to return the serve.
- 7
Something which receives some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle.
- 8
A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate receiver?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of receiver: RX, rcvr.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Receiver in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | destinataire , receveur , receleur , récepteur , écouteur |
| German | Empfänger, Empfängerin , Konkursverwalter, Insolvenzverwalter , Hehler , Empfangsgerät |
| Portuguese | destinatário, recebedor , receptador , receptor |
| Spanish | destinatario, recibidor |
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 receiver come from?
Inherited from Middle English receyvour, from Anglo-Norman receverre, receivour et al., later also reformed as receive + -er. Compare recevor, rescaivour.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).