bacteriologist
/bækˌtɪəɹiˈɒlədʒɪst/
"bacteriologist" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bacteriologist” is uncommon English (frequency #83,994 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,994
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A microbiologist whose speciality is bacteriology.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bacteriologist · bacteriologist · English
bacteriologist · rank #83,994 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,994
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 31,241
- PHOTO-FINISH Bacolod
Nearest frequency peer: Bacolod (-1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “bacteriologist”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Aydin
Aydin
16,011 corpus weight
- bacha
bacha
16,009 corpus weight
- Bacolod
Bacolod
16,008 corpus weight
- bacteriolog…
bacteriologist
16,007 corpus weight
- Baekje
Baekje
16,006 corpus weight
- Balcombe
Balcombe
16,003 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “bacteriologist” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bacteriologist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bækˌtɪəɹiˈɒlədʒɪst/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #83,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bacteriologist” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bacteriologist is uncommon English at frequency #83,994 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bækˌtɪəɹiˈɒlədʒɪst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A microbiologist whose speciality is bacteriology.".
bacteriologist doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bacterio- + -logist. The correct English form is bacteriologist, spelled B-A-C-T-E-R-I-O-L-O-G-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A microbiologist whose speciality is bacteriology.
Etymology
From bacterio- + -logist.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.