pacer
noun
pacer is a noun meaning “One who paces” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-C-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pacer is pacers.
What does pacer mean?
noun
- 1
One who paces.
- 2
In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter.
- 3
archaicA horse whose natural gait is a pace (where the legs of the same side are lifted together).
- 4
A pacemaker (one who sets the pace in a race).
- 5
A timer in an electric toothbrush that indicates how long the user should spend brushing in each part of the mouth.
- 6
AustraliaA mechanical pencil.
noun
- 1
A British lightweight railbus diesel multiple unit of class 140, 141, 142, 143 or 144.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pacer?
- Australia
Pacer 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-au-pacer.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pacer
- pacers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pacer?
Pacer appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,154th 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).
Where does pacer come from?
From pace + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).