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remembrancer

noun

remembrancer is a noun meaning “A person who reminds someone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-M-E-M-B-R-A-N-C-E-R, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of remembrancer is remembrancers.

What does remembrancer mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A person who reminds someone.

  2. 2

    A memento or souvenir.

  3. 3

    A recorder, or municipal judge.

  4. 4

    An officer of exchequer.

  5. 5

    UKAlternative letter-case form of Remembrancer: an official of the City of London Corporation.

noun

as Remembrancer
  1. 1

    UKAny of several former officials in the Court of Exchequer.

  2. 2

    UKA similar official of the City of London Corporation.

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

Forms of remembrancer

  • remembrancers plural

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

How common is remembrancer?

Remembrancer appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th 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 remembrancer come from?

From remembrance + -er.

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