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communist

com·mu·nist/ˈkɑ.mjə.nɪst/adjective, noun

communist is spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-I-S-T, 3 syllables: com·mu·nist. The wrong spelling people search most is comunist: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 29 of all searches for the word. Communist is an adjective meaning “Of, relating to, supporting, or advocating communism”.

How many letters and syllables are in communist?

Letters9: C-O-M-M-U-N-I-S-T
Syllables3: com·mu·nist
In writing21 times per million words; the 4,153rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, comunist, about 80 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell communist?

Communist is spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-I-S-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 29 of the searches for communist in either form.

communistthe right spelling2,250 searches a month
comunista missing m80 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is communist?

Communist appears 21 times per million words in written English, the 4,153rd 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).

How do you pronounce communist?

  • UK /ˈkɒm.jʊ.nɪst/
  • US /ˈkɑ.mjə.nɪst/
  • US /ˈkɑ.mju.nɪst/

Communist has 3 syllables, split com·mu·nist in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-gb-communist.oga, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Simplificationalizer-communist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of communist

  • more communist comparative
  • most communist superlative
  • communists plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does communist mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, relating to, supporting, or advocating communism.

noun

  1. 1

    An advocate of a society based on the common ownership of property; a proponent of communism.

  2. 2

    nonstandardAny revolutionary or subversive radical.

noun

as Communist
  1. 1

    A member of a formally constituted Communist Party.

  2. 2

    A proponent of the kind of communism formally espoused by such a party, typically either Marxism, or more commonly, Leninism or Maoism.

  3. 3

    Any member of an organization, especially a military force, controlled and led by a formally constituted Communist Party, even if most individual members of the organization are not party members.

  4. 4

    proscribedAlternative letter-case form of communist, a proponent of the general philosophy of communism.

adjective

as Communist
  1. 1

    Of or relating to a formally constituted Communist Party.

  2. 2

    proscribedAlternative letter-case form of communist, of or related to the general philosophy of communism.

  3. 3

    proscribedAlternative letter-case form of communistic, embodying the ideals of communism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate communist?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of communist: commo.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Communist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcommuniste (of or relating to communism)
Germankommunistisch (of or relating to communism), Kommunist, Kommunistin (person who follows a communist philosophy)
Portuguesecomunista (of or relating to communism), marxista (person who follows a communist philosophy), comuna, vermelho (revolutionary or subversive radical)
Spanishcomunista (of or relating to communism)

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 communist come from?

From French communiste, from commun (“common, communal”) + -iste (“-ist”). By surface analysis, commune + -ist.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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