Refereres

Refereres is not a standard term in English. It is most often encountered as a misspelling of referees or as an informal or nonce form related to referer(s). Because of this, its meaning can vary depending on context, and precision usually requires using the established terms.

In sports, the correct term is referees, the officials who oversee a game, enforce rules, and make calls such as penalties or fouls. The plural form is referees.

In web technology, the established term is the HTTP header Referer, spelled without the second “r.” This header indicates the address of the page from which a request originated. Some writers use the plural “Referer headers” when discussing multiple requests, but there is no official plural form in the specification. The header is used for analytics, logging, and sometimes personalization, though it raises privacy concerns since it can disclose a user’s browsing history; modern browsers and privacy tools may modify or suppress it.

In linguistic or information-referencing contexts, referer can sometimes be used informally to denote an entity that refers to something, but this usage is not standardized and is uncommon in formal writing.

As a coined or fictional term, refereres could be defined within a specific work or field to denote a body of arbiters, adjudicators, or referees in a particular setting. Such usage would be highly context-dependent.

To avoid ambiguity, prefer referees for sports officials and Referer for the HTTP header; the plural Referers is common in informal writing but not official.