vicegerent
/vaɪsˈd͡ʒɪəɹənt/noun, adjective
vicegerent is a noun meaning “The official administrative deputy of a ruler, head of state, or church official” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-C-E-G-E-R-E-N-T, and it appears about once in every 40 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vicegerent is vicegerents.
What does vicegerent mean?
noun
- 1
The official administrative deputy of a ruler, head of state, or church official.
adjective
- 1
Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vicegerent?
- /vaɪsˈd͡ʒɪəɹənt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vicegerent.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vicegerent
- vicegerents plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vicegerent?
Vicegerent appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th 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 vicegerent come from?
From Latin vicegerens.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).