antecessor

obsolete

antecessor is spelled A-N-T-E-C-E-S-S-O-R: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, antecessor means “A person or thing that precedes or goes before” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of antecessor is antecessors.

How many letters and syllables are in antecessor?

Letters	10: A-N-T-E-C-E-S-S-O-R
In writing	about once in every 55 million words; the 231,291st 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 antecessor?

Antecessor appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form in the list.

antecessor0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What does antecessor mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
archaicA person or thing that precedes or goes before.
2
archaicA person from whom one is descended.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Antecessor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

Language	Words
Spanish	antecesor

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 antecessor come from?

Inherited from Middle English antecessour, from Anglo-Norman antecessour, Middle French antecesseur, or their etymon Latin antecessor, a compound of ante + cedo + -tor; thus a doublet of ancestor.