retailer
/ˈɹiteɪlɚ/noun
retailer is spelled R-E-T-A-I-L-E-R: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 5.6 times per million words in written English, the 10,358th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, retailer means “A retail sales company or salesman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of retailer is retailers.
How many letters and syllables are in retailer?
| Letters | 8: R-E-T-A-I-L-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.6 times per million words; the 10,358th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is retailer?
Retailer appears 5.6 times per million words in written English, the 10,358th 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 retailer?
- US /ˈɹiteɪlɚ/
Retailer 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)-Vininn126-retailer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of retailer
- retailers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does retailer mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A retail sales company or salesman.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Retailer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense retail sales company or salesman:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | revendeur, distributeur, commerçant |
| German | Einzelhändler, Händler, Verkäufer, Ladenbesitzer |
| Portuguese | varejista |
| Spanish | minorista, detal, comerciante minorista, tienda minorista |
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 retailer come from?
From retail + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).