artist
/ˈɑɹ.tɪst/noun
artist is spelled A-R-T-I-S-T: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 63 times per million words in written English, the 1,668th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, artist means “A person who creates art” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of artist is artists.
How many letters and syllables are in artist?
| Letters | 6: A-R-T-I-S-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 63 times per million words; the 1,668th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is artist?
Artist appears 63 times per million words in written English, the 1,668th 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 artist?
- UK /ˈɑːtɪst/
- US /ˈɑɹ.tɪst/
- US [ˈɑɹ.ɾɪst]
Artist has 2 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-artist.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with artist?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as artist (/ɑɹtɪst/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: strait.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of artist
- artists plural
- more artist comparative
- most artist superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does artist mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person who creates art.
- 2
A person who creates art as an occupation.
- 3
A person who is skilled at some activity.
- 4
A recording artist.
- 5
A person who creates visual art (in contrast to literature, music etc.)
noun
- 1
rareplural of artist
adjective
- 1
archaicArtistic.
Nature, to shew that nothing is savage in whatsoever she produceth, causeth oftentimes, even in rudest and most unarted nations, productions of spirits to arise, that confront and wrestle with the most artist productions.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Artist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who creates art:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | artiste, peintre, peintresse |
| German | Künstler, Künstlerin, "painter": Maler, Malerin |
| Portuguese | artista |
| Spanish | artista |
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 artist come from?
From French artiste, from Late Latin artista, from ars (“art”). Doublet of artiste. Displaced native Old English cræftiga. By surface analysis, art + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).