pacer
noun
pacer is spelled P-A-C-E-R: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,154th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pacer means “One who paces” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pacer is pacers.
How many letters and syllables are in pacer?
| Letters | 5: P-A-C-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 41,154th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
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).
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).
What rhymes with pacer?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as pacer.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: recap, caper, crape.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of pacer
- pacers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pacer mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
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).
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).