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surveyor

sur·vey·orUK /səːˈveɪ.ə/noun

surveyor is spelled S-U-R-V-E-Y-O-R, 3 syllables: sur·vey·or. The wrong spelling people search most is surveyer: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 34 of all searches for the word. Surveyor is a noun meaning “A person occupied with surveying: the process of determining positions on the earth's surface”. The plural of surveyor is surveyors.

How many letters and syllables are in surveyor?

Letters8: S-U-R-V-E-Y-O-R
Syllables3: sur·vey·or
In writing2.3 times per million words; the 18,064th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, surveyer, about 110 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 surveyor?

Surveyor is spelled S-U-R-V-E-Y-O-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 34 of the searches for surveyor in either form.

surveyorthe right spelling3,650 searches a month
surveyere in place of o110 searches a month

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 surveyor?

Surveyor appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 18,064th 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 surveyor?

  • UK /səːˈveɪ.ə/
  • UK [səːˈveɪ̯.ə]
  • Australia /səːˈvæ̝ɪ.ə/

Surveyor has 3 syllables, split sur·vey·or in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-surveyor.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with surveyor?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as surveyor from its last stressed vowel (/eɪə/, British pronunciation):

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 surveyor

  • surveyors plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does surveyor mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A person occupied with surveying: the process of determining positions on the earth's surface.

  2. 2

    One who carries out a survey or poll.

  3. 3

    UKA person charged with inspecting something for the purpose of determining its condition, value, etc.

    Other costs associated with selling a home include surveyor's fees, legal fees, estate agent's commission, stamp duty and the VAT.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate surveyor?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of surveyor: Sr.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Surveyor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frencharpenteur, arpenteuse, géomètre (person occupied with the process of determining…)
GermanLandvermesserin, Landvermesser, Vermesserin, Vermesser, Geodätin, Geodät m - Austria (person occupied with the process of determining…)
Portugueseagrimensor (person occupied with the process of determining…)
Spanishagrimensor (person occupied with the process of determining…), tasador, perito (person inspecting something)

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 surveyor come from?

From Middle English surveyour, from Anglo-Norman surveour, from Old French sorveor. By surface analysis, survey + -or.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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