apicultor

noun

"apicultor" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“apicultor” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of beekeeper.

Corpus desk

Index EN-apicultor · apicultor · English

apicultor · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "A" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for apicultor
PropertyValue
Headwordapicultor
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “apicultor” in English

apicultorranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

apicultor is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of beekeeper.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for apicultor, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From French apiculteur and Spanish apicultor. The correct English form is apicultor, spelled A-P-I-C-U-L-T-O-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Synonym of beekeeper.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how apicultor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The number of the unions themselves reached 108 at the end of 1900;—693 on December 31st 1903,— and was distributed as follows: 147 farmers’ unions, 87 of cattle breeders, 25 of avicultors, 12 of apicultors, 1 of horticultors, 1 of dairy owners, 1 of viticultors, and 1 of horticultors-apicultors; besides 6 federations of farmers’ unions, forming an aggreg…
  2. If [Maurice] Maeterlinck’s “Life of Bees” is a fine work of art, it is not only because the author is a distinguished writer, but because he was himself acquainted with bees, being an apicultor, and did not make his book a mere compilation of other scientific works.

Etymology

From French apiculteur and Spanish apicultor.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "apicultor"?
"apicultor" is spelled A-P-I-C-U-L-T-O-R.
What does "apicultor" mean?
As a noun, "apicultor" means: Synonym of beekeeper.
What is the origin of the word "apicultor"?
From French apiculteur and Spanish apicultor. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list