biologist
/baɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/
"biologist" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“biologist” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,249. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,249
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A student or professor of biology; one versed in the science of biology.
Corpus desk
Index EN-biologist · biologist · English
biologist · rank #18,249 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #18,249
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH besieged
Nearest frequency peer: besieged (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “biologist”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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81,756 corpus weight
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81,755 corpus weight
- besieged
besieged
81,753 corpus weight
- biologist
biologist
81,752 corpus weight
- blowjob
blowjob
81,751 corpus weight
- bn
bn
81,750 corpus weight
What this shows “biologist” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | biologist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /baɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “biologist”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around biologist (IPA /baɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,249 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A student or professor of biology; one versed in the science of biology.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for biologist, with forms such as "bbiologist", "biloogist", and "biolgoist". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "biologic", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From biology + -ist. The correct English form is biologist, spelled B-I-O-L-O-G-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A student or professor of biology; one versed in the science of biology.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how biologist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.
Etymology
From biology + -ist.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbiologist
- biloogist
- biolgoist
- biollogist
- biologgist
- biologisst
- biologistt
- biologits
- biologsit
- bioloigst
- bioolgist
- boilogist
- ibologist
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of biologist - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "biologist", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).