vendor
/ˈvɛn.dɚ/noun, verb
vendor is spelled V-E-N-D-O-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 6.2 times per million words in written English, the 9,735th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, vendor means “A person or a company that vends or sells” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of vendor is vendors.
How many letters and syllables are in vendor?
| Letters | 6: V-E-N-D-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.2 times per million words; the 9,735th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| 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 vendor?
Vendor appears 6.2 times per million words in written English, the 9,735th 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 vendor?
- UK /ˈvɛn.də/
- US /ˈvɛn.dɚ/
Vendor 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-us-vendor.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with vendor
Sounds like: Venda (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with vendor?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as vendor from its last stressed vowel (/ɛndəɹ/):
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 vendor
- vendors plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- vendoring participle, present
- vendored participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does vendor mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person or a company that vends or sells.
- 2
A vending machine.
verb
- 1
To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.
I distributed my application with a vendored copy of Perl so that it wouldn't use the system copies of Perl where it is installed.
- 2
As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.
Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Vendor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a person or a company that vends or sells:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vendeur, vendeuse, marchand, marchande, commerçant, commerçante |
| German | Anbieter, Vertreiber, Lieferant, Lieferantin, Lieferer, Lieferin |
| Portuguese | vendedor, vendedora, fornecedor, fornecedora |
| Spanish | vendedor, vendedora |
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 vendor come from?
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (Old French vendeor), from Latin venditor (“seller”), from vendere (“to sell, cry up for sale, praise”), contraction of venundare, venumdare, also, as originally, two words venum dare (“to sell”), from venum (“sale, price”) + dare (“to give”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).