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remonstrant

noun, adjective

remonstrant is spelled R-E-M-O-N-S-T-R-A-N-T: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, remonstrant means “One who remonstrates, or issues (usually formal and written) protestations” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of remonstrant is remonstrants.

How many letters and syllables are in remonstrant?

Letters11: R-E-M-O-N-S-T-R-A-N-T
In writingabout once in every 54 million words; the 228,409th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is remonstrant?

Remonstrant appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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).

Forms of remonstrant

  • remonstrants plural
  • more remonstrant comparative
  • most remonstrant superlative

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

What does remonstrant mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    One who remonstrates, or issues (usually formal and written) protestations.

adjective

  1. 1

    Inclined or tending to remonstrate; expostulatory; urging reasons in opposition to something.

noun

as Remonstrant
  1. 1

    A member of the Dutch Arminians whose divergence from Calvinism was expressed in five articles in the Remonstrance of 1610; subsequently a member of the liberal Protestant denomination that developed from this group.

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

Where does remonstrant come from?

Borrowed from Dutch remonstrant, from Latin remōnstrāns.

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

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