selector
/sɪˈlɛktə(ɹ)/noun
selector is spelled S-E-L-E-C-T-O-R: 8 letters. It appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 23,253rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, selector means “Someone or something which selects or chooses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of selector is selectors.
How many letters and syllables are in selector?
| Letters | 8: S-E-L-E-C-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| In writing | 1.5 times per million words; the 23,253rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is selector?
Selector appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 23,253rd 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 selector?
- /sɪˈlɛktə(ɹ)/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-selector.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with selector?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as selector.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: corselet.
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 selector
- selectors plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does selector mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone or something which selects or chooses.
- 2
An administrator responsible for selecting which players will play for a side.
- 3
A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style.
- 4
A pointer to a structure describing a segment of memory.
- 5
A text string transmitted to a Gopher server, identifying the resource to be retrieved.
Gopher selector strings are more liberal in makeup than URLs and may contain any characters other than a tab, return, or linefeed.
- 6
A disc jockey.
- 7
AustraliaA person who is entitled to choose a tract of Crown land to purchase.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Selector in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense someone or something which selects or chooses:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | selecionador |
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 selector come from?
From select + -or.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).