honouree
noun
honouree is a noun meaning “One who receives an honour or award” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-N-O-U-R-E-E, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of honouree is honourees.
What does honouree mean?
noun
- 1
One who receives an honour or award.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of honouree
- honourees plural
- honoree
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is honouree?
Honouree appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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 honouree come from?
From honour + -ee.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).