refractor
/ɹɪˈfɹæktə(ɹ)/noun
refractor is a noun meaning “A refracting telescope” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-F-R-A-C-T-O-R and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of refractor is refractors.
What does refractor mean?
noun
- 1
A refracting telescope.
- 2
anything which refracts light, heat or sound
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce refractor?
- /ɹɪˈfɹæktə(ɹ)/
Refractor 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)-Neøn-refractor.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of refractor
- refractors plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is refractor?
Refractor appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,788th 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).
Where does refractor come from?
From refract + -or.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).