# seller

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈsɛlə/ · frequency rank #7,057

## Definitions
1. Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.
2. Something which sells.

## Etymology
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”).

## Easily confused with
- **sells** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-sells)
- **sewer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-sewer)
- **sever** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-sever)
- **silver** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-silver)
- **server** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-server)
- **sender** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-sender)
- **solder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-solder)
- **setter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-setter)
- **sexier** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-sexier)
- **solver** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-solver)
- **Skyler** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-skyler)
- **sullen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-sullen)
- **smaller** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-smaller)
- **shelter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-shelter)
- **sellers** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-sellers)
- **spelled** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-spelled)
- **stellar** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-stellar)
- **Shelley** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-shelley)
- **smelled** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-smelled)
- **settler** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seller-vs-settler)

## Common misspellings (7)
`esller`, `selelr`, `seler`, `sellerr`, `sellre`, `sleler`, `sseller`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/seller