activist
/ˈæk.tɪ.vɪst/noun, adjective
activist is spelled A-C-T-I-V-I-S-T. The wrong spelling people search most is activit: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Activist is a noun meaning “One who is politically active in the role of a citizen; especially, one who campaigns for change”. The plural of activist is activists.
How many letters and syllables are in activist?
| Letters | 8: A-C-T-I-V-I-S-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,778th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, activit, about 80 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell activist?
Activist is spelled A-C-T-I-V-I-S-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for activist in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is activist?
Activist appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th 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).
How do you pronounce activist?
- US /ˈæk.tɪ.vɪst/
Activist 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-activist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of activist
- activists plural
- more activist comparative
- most activist superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does activist mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who is politically active in the role of a citizen; especially, one who campaigns for change.
- 2
One who is conspicuously active in carrying out any occupational or professional functions.
adjective
- 1
Behaving as an activist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Activist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense one who is politically active:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | militant, militante, activiste |
| German | Aktivist, Aktivistin |
| Portuguese | ativista |
| Spanish | activista |
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.