copyist
copy·ist/ˈkɑpiɪst/noun
copyist is spelled C-O-P-Y-I-S-T, 2 syllables: copy·ist. The wrong spelling people search most is copist: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Copyist is a noun meaning “A person who makes manual copies of works such as manuscripts or paintings”. The plural of copyist is copyists.
How many letters and syllables are in copyist?
| Letters | 7: C-O-P-Y-I-S-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: copy·ist |
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 77,666th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, copist, about 10 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 copyist?
Copyist is spelled C-O-P-Y-I-S-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for copyist in either form.
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 copyist?
Copyist appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 77,666th 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 copyist?
- US /ˈkɑpiɪst/
- UK /ˈkɒpiɪst/
Copyist has 2 syllables, split copy·ist in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-copyist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of copyist
- copyists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does copyist mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person who makes manual copies of works such as manuscripts or paintings.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Copyist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who makes manual copies of works:
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 copyist come from?
From copy + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).