expressionist
"expressionist" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“expressionist” is uncommon English (frequency #51,100 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,100
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, pertaining to, or in the style of expressionism.
Corpus desk
Index EN-expressionist · expressionist · English
expressionist · rank #51,100 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,100
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH explainer
Nearest frequency peer: explainer (-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 “expressionist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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eukaryotes
48,904 corpus weight
- Everly
Everly
48,903 corpus weight
- explainer
explainer
48,902 corpus weight
- expressioni…
expressionist
48,901 corpus weight
- Farquhar
Farquhar
48,897 corpus weight
- fatigues
fatigues
48,895 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “expressionist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expressionist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #51,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “expressionist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
expressionist is uncommon English at frequency #51,100 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of, pertaining to, or in the style of expressionism.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for expressionist, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From expression + -ist. The correct English form is expressionist, spelled E-X-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Of, pertaining to, or in the style of expressionism.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how expressionist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said. “Many artists at this time were trying to make new altarpieces. Klee tended to take a very skeptical distance from the sort of grandiose projects of many of his expressionist peers, so I think it’s actually kind of mocking those hopes.”
Etymology
From expression + -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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).