separator
/ˈsɛpəˌɹeɪtəɹ/noun
separator is spelled S-E-P-A-R-A-T-O-R. The wrong spelling people search most is seperator: about 340 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Separator is a noun meaning “An object located between two or more things and hence separating them”. The plural of separator is separators.
How many letters and syllables are in separator?
| Letters | 9: S-E-P-A-R-A-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 31,549th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, seperator, about 340 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell separator?
Separator is spelled S-E-P-A-R-A-T-O-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure.
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 separator?
Separator appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,549th 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 separator?
- /ˈsɛpəˌɹeɪtəɹ/
Separator has 4 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-separator.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of separator
- separators plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does separator mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An object located between two or more things and hence separating them.
- 2
A device for removing one substance from another, such as cream from milk.
- 3
One who separates; an agent performing the action of separating.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Separator in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | separador |
| German | Abscheider |
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 separator come from?
Borrowed from Latin sēparātor.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).