satyr
sa·tyr/ˈseɪtɚ/noun
satyr is spelled S-A-T-Y-R, 2 syllables: sa·tyr. The wrong spelling people search most is sotyr: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 357 of all searches for the word. Satyr is a noun meaning “A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and…”. The plural of satyr is satyrs.
How many letters and syllables are in satyr?
| Letters | 5: S-A-T-Y-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: sa·tyr |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 54,808th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, sotyr, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell satyr?
Satyr is spelled S-A-T-Y-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 363 of the searches for satyr 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 satyr?
Satyr appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 54,808th 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 satyr?
- UK /ˈsætə/
- US /ˈseɪtɚ/
- US /ˈsætɚ/
Satyr has 2 syllables, split sa·tyr in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-satyr.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with satyr
Sounds like: saeter (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with satyr?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as satyr from its last stressed vowel (/eɪtəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: stray, artsy, stary.
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 satyr
- satyrs plural
- satyrus rare
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does satyr mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection.
- 2
Synonym of faun.
- 3
A lecherous man.
- 4
Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
- 5
obsoleteThe orangutan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Satyr in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Greek mythology:
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 satyr come from?
From French satyre, from Latin satyrus, from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).