evilutionist
"evilutionist" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“evilutionist” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A supporter of the theory of evolution, regarded as an enemy of religion.
Corpus desk
Index EN-evilutionist · evilutionist · English
evilutionist · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | evilutionist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “evilutionist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
evilutionist is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A supporter of the theory of evolution, regarded as an enemy of religion.".
No misspelling variants are generated for evilutionist in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of evil + evolutionist. The correct English form is evilutionist, spelled E-V-I-L-U-T-I-O-N-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A supporter of the theory of evolution, regarded as an enemy of religion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how evilutionist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In several large cities I was asked to address secret midnight meetings of high school teachers who feared to lose their jobs if seen consorting with an "evilutionist."
Originally seen as a great opportunity to do irreparable damage to religious modernists and "evilutionists," the fundamentalists found, instead, that it was they who were injured by the Scopes trial.
Etymology
Blend of evil + evolutionist.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.