perjurer
/ˈpəɹdʒəɹəɹ/noun
perjurer is a noun meaning “someone who has committed perjury by lying under oath” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-E-R-J-U-R-E-R and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of perjurer is perjurers.
What does perjurer mean?
noun
- 1
someone who has committed perjury by lying under oath
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce perjurer?
- Canada /ˈpəɹdʒəɹəɹ/
Perjurer has 3 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-perjurer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of perjurer
- perjurers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is perjurer?
Perjurer appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th 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).
Perjurer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who has lied under oath:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | parjure |
| German | Meineidige |
| Spanish | perjurador, perjuradora |
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 perjurer come from?
From perjure + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).