seller
/ˈsɛlɚ/noun
seller is spelled S-E-L-L-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, seller means “Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of seller is sellers.
How many letters and syllables are in seller?
| Letters | 6: S-E-L-L-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 7,009th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
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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); 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 common is seller?
Seller appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th 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 seller?
- UK /ˈsɛlə/
- US /ˈsɛlɚ/
Seller has 2 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-seller.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with seller
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: cellar, sellar (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: cellar.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with seller?
11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as seller from its last stressed vowel (/ɛləɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: resell.
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 seller
- sellers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does seller mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.
Alisha was a seller of fine books.
- 2
Something which sells.
Two of the books Alisha authored had become big sellers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Seller in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense someone who sells:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vendeur, vendeuse |
| German | Verkäufer, Verkäuferin |
| Portuguese | vendedor, vendedora |
| Spanish | vendedor, vendedora |
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 seller come from?
From Middle English seller, sellere, (also siller, sullar, sullere), from Old English *sellere, *syllere, equivalent to sell + -er (agent noun) (sense 1) and sell + -er (patient) (sense 2). Cognate with Danish sælger, Swedish säljare, Icelandic seljari (“a seller; dealer”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).