writer
/ˈɹaɪ.təɹ/noun
writer is spelled W-R-I-T-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is writter: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 55 of all searches for the word. Writer is a noun meaning “A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer"”. The plural of writer is writers.
How many letters and syllables are in writer?
| Letters | 6: W-R-I-T-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 49 times per million words; the 2,072nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, writter, about 90 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); 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 writer?
Writer is spelled W-R-I-T-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 55 of the searches for writer in either form.
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 writer?
Writer appears 49 times per million words in written English, the 2,072nd 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 writer?
- UK /ˈɹaɪ.tə(ɹ)/
- UK [ˈɹ̠aɪtə(ɹ̠)]
- US /ˈɹaɪ.təɹ/
Writer 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-uk-writer.ogg, En-us-writer.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with writer
Also written: letter-writer.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with writer?
8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as writer from its last stressed vowel (/aɪtəɹ/):
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 writer
- writers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does writer mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!
- 2
Anything that writes or produces output.
- 3
A machine or tool used for writing, often by chording keys on a specialized keyboard (e.g. braillewriter, microwriter, stenograph).
- 4
The seller of an option.
- 5
A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
- 6
ScotlandAn ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.
- 7
USA petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.
- 8
slangA graffiti artist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate writer?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of writer: LW.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Writer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who writes; an author:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | écrivain, écrivaine, auteur, autrice, auteure |
| German | Schriftsteller, Schriftstellerin, Autor, Autorin, Schreiber, Schreiberin |
| Portuguese | escritor, escritora |
| Spanish | escritor, escritora, escriptor, escriptora |
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 writer come from?
From Middle English writer, writere, from Old English wrītere (“draughtsman; painter; writer; scribe; copyist”) and ġewritere (“writer; composer”), equivalent to write + -er and writ + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).