analyst
/ˈænəlɪst/noun
analyst is spelled A-N-A-L-Y-S-T. The wrong spelling people search most is analyist: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 30 of all searches for the word. Analyst is a noun meaning “Someone who analyzes”. The plural of analyst is analysts.
How many letters and syllables are in analyst?
| Letters | 7: A-N-A-L-Y-S-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,784th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, analyist, about 120 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Sounds like |
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 analyst?
Analyst is spelled A-N-A-L-Y-S-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 30 of the searches for analyst 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 analyst?
Analyst appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,784th 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 analyst?
- /ˈænəlɪst/
Analyst 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: En-us-analyst.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with analyst
Sounds like: annalist (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of analyst
- analysts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does analyst mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone who analyzes.
- 2
Someone who is an analytical thinker.
- 3
A mathematician who studies real analysis.
- 4
A systems analyst.
- 5
A practitioner of psychoanalysis.
- 6
A financial analyst; a business analyst.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Analyst in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | analyste , psychanalyste |
| German | Analytiker, Analytikerin |
| Portuguese | analista , psicanalista |
| Spanish | analista , psicoanalista |
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 analyst come from?
From French analyste.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).