sitter
/ˈsɪtɚ/noun
sitter is spelled S-I-T-T-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sitter means “Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sitter is sitters.
How many letters and syllables are in sitter?
| Letters | 6: S-I-T-T-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.5 times per million words; the 22,965th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is sitter?
Sitter appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th 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 sitter?
- UK /ˈsɪtə/
- US /ˈsɪtɚ/
- US [ˈsɪɾɚ]
Sitter 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: En-au-sitter.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sitter?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sitter from its last stressed vowel (/ɪtəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tetris, triste.
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 sitter
- sitters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sitter mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
- 2
One employed to watch or tend something; a babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.
It's always such a pain to get a sitter on short notice.
- 3
A sitting room.
- 4
A participant in a séance who is not a medium.
- 5
A broody hen.
- 6
slangA very easy scoring chance.
How could he miss that? It was an absolute sitter!
- 7
Someone who accompanies a person who is taking a psychedelic drug, to provide reassurance in case of a bad trip.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does sitter come from?
From Middle English sitter, sittere, syttare, equivalent to sit + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).