contender

From contend + -er.

• (US) IPA^(key): /kənˈtɛn.dɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: con‧ten‧der

contender (plural contenders)

1. Someone who competes with one or more other people.
2. Someone who has a viable chance of winning a competition.
   • 2016 January 1, David Hytner, The Guardian‎^[1]:

     In April 2014, towards the end of Özil’s first season at Arsenal – which had been marked by highs and lows – Wenger predicted the German would be a contender for the player of the year awards in 2014‑15.

• contestant

• retconned

From Latin contendere.

• Hyphenation: con‧ten‧der

contender (first-person singular present contendo, first-person singular preterite contendi, past participle contendido)

1. (intransitive) to contend (to strive in opposition)

• contenção
• contendente
• contendor

• “contender”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “contender”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Latin contendere.

• IPA^(key): /kontenˈdeɾ/ [kõn̪.t̪ẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: con‧ten‧der

contender (first-person singular present contiendo, first-person singular preterite contendí, past participle contendido)

1. to contend
2. to contest

• “contender”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025