aphorist
noun
aphorist is a noun meaning “A person who creates or recites aphorisms” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-P-H-O-R-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of aphorist is aphorists.
What does aphorist mean?
noun
- 1
A person who creates or recites aphorisms.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of aphorist
- aphorists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is aphorist?
Aphorist appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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).
Aphorist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who writes or recites aphorisms:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Aphoristiker, Aphoristikerin |
| Portuguese | aforista |
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.