epidemiologist
"epidemiologist" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“epidemiologist” is uncommon English (frequency #53,521 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,521
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A scientist (often a medical doctor) who specializes in epidemiology.
Corpus desk
Index EN-epidemiologist · epidemiologist · English
epidemiologist · rank #53,521 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,521
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH Erebus
Nearest frequency peer: Erebus (+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 “epidemiologist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- embarkation
embarkation
46,485 corpus weight
- encroach
encroach
46,482 corpus weight
- epidemiolog…
epidemiologist
46,480 corpus weight
- Erebus
Erebus
46,479 corpus weight
- esper
esper
46,477 corpus weight
- estuarine
estuarine
46,475 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “epidemiologist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | epidemiologist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #53,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “epidemiologist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
epidemiologist is uncommon English at frequency #53,521 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A scientist (often a medical doctor) who specializes in epidemiology.".
epidemiologist doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From epidemiology + -ist. The correct English form is epidemiologist, spelled E-P-I-D-E-M-I-O-L-O-G-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A scientist (often a medical doctor) who specializes in epidemiology.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how epidemiologist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”
“On the inside, it’s absolute chaos,” said one epidemiologist still employed at the CDC.
Etymology
From epidemiology + -ist.
This word in other languages
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 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).