cultists
/ˈkʌltɪsts/
"cultists" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cultists” is uncommon English (frequency #57,315 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,315
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of cultist
Corpus desk
Index EN-cultists · cultists · English
cultists · rank #57,315 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,315
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH curio
Nearest frequency peer: curio (+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 “cultists”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- creosote
creosote
42,689 corpus weight
- crumbly
crumbly
42,688 corpus weight
- cultists
cultists
42,686 corpus weight
- curio
curio
42,685 corpus weight
- cushioning
cushioning
42,684 corpus weight
- cust
cust
42,683 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cultists” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cultists |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkʌltɪsts/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cultists” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cultists is uncommon English at frequency #57,315 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkʌltɪsts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of cultist".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cultists, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is cultists, spelled C-U-L-T-I-S-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of cultist
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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