senior
se·nior/ˈsinjɚ/adjective, noun
senior is spelled S-E-N-I-O-R, 2 syllables: se·nior. The wrong spelling people search most is seinor: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 256 of all searches for the word. Senior is an adjective meaning “Older”.
How many letters and syllables are in senior?
| Letters | 6: S-E-N-I-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: se·nior |
| In writing | 83 times per million words; the 1,272nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, seinor, about 80 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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 senior?
Senior is spelled S-E-N-I-O-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 256 of the searches for senior 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 senior?
Senior appears 83 times per million words in written English, the 1,272nd 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 senior?
- UK /ˈsiːnjə(ɹ)/
- US /ˈsinjɚ/
- Australia /ˈsiːnjə(ɹ)/
Senior has 2 syllables, split se·nior in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-US_senior.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with senior?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as senior from its last stressed vowel (/injəɹ/):
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 senior
- more senior comparative
- most senior superlative
- seniors plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does senior mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Older.
senior citizen
- 2
Higher in rank, dignity, or office; superior.
senior member; senior counsel
- 3
USOf or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.
- 4
CanadaUSOf or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players above a certain age or level of experience.
senior hockey
- 5
Synonym of elder.
noun
- 1
USAn old person.
- 2
Someone older than someone else (with possessive).
He was four years her senior.
- 3
Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age.
- 4
obsoleteAn elder or presbyter in the early Church.
- 5
Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office.
- 6
USA final-year student at a high school or university; a finalist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate senior?
Wiktionary records 4 abbreviations of senior: Snr, Sr, sen., senr..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Senior in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | aîné , supérieur , ancien |
| German | älter |
| Portuguese | sénior , sênior |
| Spanish | anciano, sénior, senior , señor , alto cargo, experimentado |
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 senior come from?
From Middle English senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”); see senate. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).