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forgiver

noun

forgiver is a noun meaning “A person who forgives” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-G-I-V-E-R, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of forgiver is forgivers.

What does forgiver mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A person who forgives.

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

Forms of forgiver

  • forgivers plural

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

How common is forgiver?

Forgiver appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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 forgiver come from?

From forgive + -er.

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