Chekist
noun
Chekist is a noun meaning “An agent of the Cheka” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-E-K-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Chekist is Chekists.
What does Chekist mean?
noun
- 1
An agent of the Cheka.
- 2
A national security official of the KGB, FSB or any of the security services of the Soviet Union or Russian Federation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Chekist
- Chekists plural
- Tchekist
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Chekist?
Chekist appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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).
Chekist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense agent of the Cheka:
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 Chekist come from?
From Russian чеки́ст (čekíst) from Чека́ (Čeká) + -ист (-ist).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).