signatory
/ˈsɪɡ.nə.tɔː.ɹi/noun, adjective
signatory is spelled S-I-G-N-A-T-O-R-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is signitory: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 175 of all searches for the word. Signatory is a noun meaning “One who signs or has signed something”. The plural of signatory is signatories.
How many letters and syllables are in signatory?
| Letters | 9: S-I-G-N-A-T-O-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 31,974th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, signitory, about 10 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 signatory?
Signatory is spelled S-I-G-N-A-T-O-R-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 175 of the searches for signatory 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 signatory?
Signatory appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,974th 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 signatory?
- /ˈsɪɡ.nə.tɹi/
- US /ˈsɪɡ.nə.tɔː.ɹi/
Signatory 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-signatory.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of signatory
- signatories plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does signatory mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who signs or has signed something.
Near-synonyms: undersigned, subscriber
adjective
- 1
Relating to a seal; used in sealing.
- 2
Signing; joining or sharing in a signature.
signatory powers
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Signatory in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense one who signs or signed:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | signataire |
| German | Unterzeichner, Unterzeichnerin, Unterzeichneter, Unterzeichnete |
| Portuguese | assinante, subscritor, subscritora |
| Spanish | firmante, signatario, signataria |
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 signatory come from?
From Latin signatorius.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).