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reviewer

noun

reviewer is a noun meaning “A person who writes reviews for a newspaper or other publication; a critic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-V-I-E-W-E-R and has 3 syllables, and it appears 3.0 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of reviewer is reviewers.

What does reviewer mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A person who writes reviews for a newspaper or other publication; a critic.

  2. 2

    A person who reviews songs, movies, games, or other forms of artistic works.

  3. 3

    An inspector.

  4. 4

    Any comprehensive study material used to review for an examination; study guide.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce reviewer?

Reviewer 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)-Vealhurl-reviewer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of reviewer

  • reviewers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is reviewer?

Reviewer appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,613th 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).

Reviewer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense critic:

LanguageWords
Frenchrelecteur, réviseur
GermanRezensent, Rezensentin
Portuguesecrítico
Spanishreseñista, reseñante, crítico, reseñador, recensor

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 reviewer come from?

From review + -er.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).