environmentalist

noun, adjective

environmentalist is spelled E-N-V-I-R-O-N-M-E-N-T-A-L-I-S-T. The wrong spelling people search most is enviromentalist: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Environmentalist is a noun meaning “One who advocates for the protection of the environment and biosphere from misuse from human activity through…”. The plural of environmentalist is environmentalists.

How many letters and syllables are in environmentalist?

Letters	16: E-N-V-I-R-O-N-M-E-N-T-A-L-I-S-T
Syllables	6 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	about once in every 1 million words; the 31,974th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	2; the most searched, enviromentalist, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 environmentalist?

Environmentalist is spelled E-N-V-I-R-O-N-M-E-N-T-A-L-I-S-T. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for environmentalist in either form.

environmentalistthe right spelling240 searches a month

enviromentalista missing n30 searches a month

enviornmentalistr and o swapped10 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 environmentalist?

Environmentalist appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,974th most frequent word form in the list.

environmentalist0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce environmentalist?

Environmentalist has 6 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

Forms of environmentalist

environmentalists plural
more environmentalist comparative
most environmentalist superlative

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

What does environmentalist mean?

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

noun

1
One who advocates for the protection of the environment and biosphere from misuse from human activity through such measures as ecosystem protection, waste reduction and pollution prevention.
2
One who holds the view that environment, rather than heredity or culture, is the primary factor in the development of an individual or group.

adjective

1
Of, or relating to environmentalism.

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