reporter
/ɹɪˈpoɹ.tɚ/noun
reporter is spelled R-E-P-O-R-T-E-R: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 3,939th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, reporter means “Someone or something that reports” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of reporter is reporters.
How many letters and syllables are in reporter?
| Letters | 8: R-E-P-O-R-T-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 22 times per million words; the 3,939th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is reporter?
Reporter appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 3,939th 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 reporter?
- UK /ɹɪˈpɔː.tə/
- US /ɹɪˈpoɹ.tɚ/
- US [ɹɪˈpoɹ.ɾɚ]
Reporter 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-reporter.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with reporter?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as reporter from its last stressed vowel (/oɹtəɹ/):
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 reporter
- reporters plural
- reportor
- reportour
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does reporter mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone or something that reports.
The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.
- 2
A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
- 3
A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
- 4
A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
- 5
A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate reporter?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of reporter: rptr..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Reporter in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense journalist:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | reporter, reporteur, reporteuse f or reportrice, rapporteur, rapporteuse, journaliste |
| German | Reporter, Reporterin |
| Portuguese | repórter, jornalista |
| Spanish | reportero, reportera |
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 reporter come from?
From Middle English reportour, from Old French reporteur; equivalent to report + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).