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escapologist

/ˈɛs.kəˌpɑl.ə.dʒɪst/noun

escapologist is spelled E-S-C-A-P-O-L-O-G-I-S-T: 12 letters and 5 syllables. It appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, escapologist means “An entertainer skilled in the art of escapology” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of escapologist is escapologists.

How many letters and syllables are in escapologist?

Letters12: E-S-C-A-P-O-L-O-G-I-S-T
Syllables5 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 59 million words; the 240,237th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is escapologist?

Escapologist appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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 escapologist?

  • UK /ˈɛs.kəˌpɒl.ə.dʒɪst/
  • US /ˈɛs.kəˌpɑl.ə.dʒɪst/

Escapologist has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

Forms of escapologist

  • escapologists plural

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

What does escapologist mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An entertainer skilled in the art of escapology.

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

Escapologist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense entertainer:

LanguageWords
Portugueseescapologista
Spanishescapista

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.

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