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resuscitator

noun

resuscitator is spelled R-E-S-U-S-C-I-T-A-T-O-R: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, resuscitator means “A person or thing that resuscitates” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of resuscitator is resuscitators.

How many letters and syllables are in resuscitator?

Letters12: R-E-S-U-S-C-I-T-A-T-O-R
In writingabout once in every 55 million words; the 231,291st 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 resuscitator?

Resuscitator appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st 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 resuscitator

  • resuscitators plural

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

What does resuscitator mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A person or thing that resuscitates.

  2. 2

    A device, usually consisting of a face mask and tank, used to restore normal breathing to a person by forcing oxygen or an oxygen-rich mixture of gases into their lungs.

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

Where does resuscitator come from?

From resuscitate + -or.

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

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