subscriber
/səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/noun
subscriber is spelled S-U-B-S-C-R-I-B-E-R: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 3.3 times per million words in written English, the 14,509th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, subscriber means “A person who subscribes to a publication or a service” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of subscriber is subscribers.
How many letters and syllables are in subscriber?
| Letters | 10: S-U-B-S-C-R-I-B-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.3 times per million words; the 14,509th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 subscriber?
Subscriber appears 3.3 times per million words in written English, the 14,509th 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 subscriber?
- US /səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/
Subscriber has 3 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-subscriber.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with subscriber?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as subscriber from its last stressed vowel (/aɪbəɹ/):
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 subscriber
- subscribers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does subscriber mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person who subscribes to a publication or a service.
Our magazine has over ten thousand subscribers.
- 2
A system or component that subscribes to something, such as an event, made available by a publisher.
- 3
A person undersigned.
Near-synonyms: signatory, signer
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Subscriber in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a person who subscribes to a publication or a service:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | abonné |
| German | Abonnent, Abonnentin, Bezieher, Bezieherin |
| Portuguese | assinante, subscritor, subscritora, inscrito, inscrita |
| Spanish | suscriptor, suscriptora, abonado, subscriptor |
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 subscriber come from?
From subscribe + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).