recipient
/ɹəˈsɪp.i.ənt/noun, adjective
recipient is spelled R-E-C-I-P-I-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is recepient: about 290 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Recipient is a noun meaning “One who receives”. The plural of recipient is recipients.
How many letters and syllables are in recipient?
| Letters | 9: R-E-C-I-P-I-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.7 times per million words; the 7,797th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, recepient, about 290 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell recipient?
Recipient is spelled R-E-C-I-P-I-E-N-T. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for recipient 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 recipient?
Recipient appears 8.7 times per million words in written English, the 7,797th 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 recipient?
- /ɹəˈsɪp.i.ənt/
- /ɹɪˈsɪp.i.ənt/
Recipient has 4 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-recipient.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of recipient
- recipients plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does recipient mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who receives.
the recipient of money or goods
- 2
A person receiving donor organs or tissues.
- 3
The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.
adjective
- 1
receiving
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Recipient in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | receveur, receveuse, destinataire, récipiendaire , personne greffée |
| German | Empfänger, Empfängerin |
| Portuguese | receptor, destinatário |
| Spanish | adjudicatario, destinatario, recipiente |
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 recipient come from?
Borrowed from Middle French récipient, from Latin recipiēns, present participle of recipiō (“to receive”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).