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limner

/ˈlɪmnɚ/noun

limner is a noun meaning “Someone who limns or portrays” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-I-M-N-E-R, and it appears about once in every 66 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of limner is limners.

What does limner mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Someone who limns or portrays.

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

How do you pronounce limner?

  • /ˈlɪmnɚ/

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

Forms of limner

  • limners plural

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

How common is limner?

Limner appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th 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 limner come from?

From limn + -er.

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