colonist
/ˈkɒlənɪst/
"colonist" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“colonist” is uncommon English (frequency #51,028 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,028
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A founder of a colony.
Corpus desk
Index EN-colonist · colonist · English
colonist · rank #51,028 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,028
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Colfax
Nearest frequency peer: Colfax (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “colonist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- coffeehouse
coffeehouse
48,976 corpus weight
- coincident
coincident
48,975 corpus weight
- Colfax
Colfax
48,974 corpus weight
- colonist
colonist
48,973 corpus weight
- confusingly
confusingly
48,969 corpus weight
- Connacht
Connacht
48,967 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “colonist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colonist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɒlənɪst/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “colonist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
colonist is uncommon English at frequency #51,028 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɒlənɪst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for colonist, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From colon(y) + -ist. The correct English form is colonist, spelled C-O-L-O-N-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A founder of a colony.
- 2A member of a colony.
Etymology
From colon(y) + -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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).