visitor
vis·it·or/ˈvɪzɪtɚ/noun
visitor is spelled V-I-S-I-T-O-R: 7 letters and 3 syllables (vis·it·or). It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, visitor means “Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of visitor is visitors.
How many letters and syllables are in visitor?
| Letters | 7: V-I-S-I-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: vis·it·or |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 7,009th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is visitor?
Visitor appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th 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 visitor?
- UK /ˈvɪzɪtə/
- US /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/
Visitor has 3 syllables, split vis·it·or in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-visitor.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of visitor
- visitors plural
- visitour
- visiter
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does visitor mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
- 2
Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
- 3
Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
- 4
A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.
- 5
An extraterrestrial being on Earth.
The visitor in Man Facing South-east claims pure altruism; Rantes (Hugo Soto) wants to alleviate the suffering of the poor and helpless.
- 6
An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
- 7
UKA head or overseer of an institution such as a college (in which case, equivalent to the university's chancellor) or cathedral or hospital, who resolves disputes, gives ceremonial speeches, etc.
- 8
The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Visitor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | visiteur, visiteuse , invité, invitée |
| German | Besucher, Besucherin, Gast, Gästin |
| Portuguese | visita , turista, visitante |
| Spanish | visita |
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 visitor come from?
Partly from Middle English visiter, visitere, equivalent to visit + -er; and partly from Middle English visitour, from Anglo-Norman visitour, from Old French visetëor. By surface analysis, visit + -or.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).