climatologist
"climatologist" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“climatologist” is uncommon English (frequency #88,212 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,212
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who studies, professes or practices climatology.
Corpus desk
Index EN-climatologist · climatologist · English
climatologist · rank #88,212 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,212
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Clytemnestra
Nearest frequency peer: Clytemnestra (+3 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.
Long-tail ranks near “climatologist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cholla
cholla
11,798 corpus weight
- circularly
circularly
11,795 corpus weight
- civilize
civilize
11,794 corpus weight
- climatologi…
climatologist
11,789 corpus weight
- Clytemnestra
Clytemnestra
11,786 corpus weight
- coinsurance
coinsurance
11,781 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “climatologist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | climatologist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #88,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “climatologist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
climatologist is uncommon English at frequency #88,212 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who studies, professes or practices climatology.".
No misspelling variants are generated for climatologist in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From climatology + -ist. The correct English form is climatologist, spelled C-L-I-M-A-T-O-L-O-G-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A person who studies, professes or practices climatology.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how climatologist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.
“The lack of an agreement to phase out fossil fuels was devastating,” said Prof Michael Mann, a climatologist and geophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania in the US.
Etymology
From climatology + -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); 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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).