caricaturist
/ˈkæɹɪkəˌt͡ʃʊəɹɪst/
"caricaturist" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“caricaturist” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who draws caricatures.
Corpus desk
Index EN-caricaturist · caricaturist · English
caricaturist · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" 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 | caricaturist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkæɹɪkəˌt͡ʃʊəɹɪst/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “caricaturist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
caricaturist is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkæɹɪkəˌt͡ʃʊəɹɪst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who draws caricatures.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for caricaturist in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From caricature + -ist. The correct English form is caricaturist, spelled C-A-R-I-C-A-T-U-R-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A person who draws caricatures.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caricaturist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But, the power of the caricaturist lies in exhibiting with increased ugliness personal and natural defects . . .
Etymology
From caricature + -ist.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.