colourist
"colourist" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“colourist” is uncommon English (frequency #97,956 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,956
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who colours; an artist with a talent for colouring
Corpus desk
Index EN-colourist · colourist · English
colourist · rank #97,956 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,956
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH colorimetric
Nearest frequency peer: colorimetric (-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 “colourist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- colocation
colocation
2,048 corpus weight
- Coloma
Coloma
2,047 corpus weight
- colorimetric
colorimetric
2,046 corpus weight
- colourist
colourist
2,045 corpus weight
- comprehensi…
comprehensiveness
2,042 corpus weight
- confab
confab
2,041 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “colourist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colourist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “colourist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
colourist is uncommon English at frequency #97,956 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for colourist, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From colour + -ist. The correct English form is colourist, spelled C-O-L-O-U-R-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1One who colours; an artist with a talent for colouring
- 2A hairdresser who is a specialist in colouring and tinting hair.
Etymology
From colour + -ist.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).