apicultor
"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
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apicultor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “apicultor” in English
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
- 1Synonym of beekeeper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apicultor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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…
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.