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algebraist

noun

algebraist is spelled A-L-G-E-B-R-A-I-S-T: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, algebraist means “A mathematician who specializes in algebra” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of algebraist is algebraists.

How many letters and syllables are in algebraist?

Letters10: A-L-G-E-B-R-A-I-S-T
In writingabout once in every 89 million words; the 301,415th 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 algebraist?

Algebraist appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th 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 algebraist?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-algebraist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of algebraist

  • algebraists plural
  • algebrist

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

What does algebraist mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A mathematician who specializes in algebra.

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

Algebraist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense mathematician:

LanguageWords
Frenchalgébriste
GermanAlgebraiker
Portuguesealgebrista
Spanishalgebrista

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.

Where does algebraist come from?

From algebra + -ist.

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

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