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fabulist

/ˈfæbjəlɪst/noun

fabulist is spelled F-A-B-U-L-I-S-T: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, fabulist means “A person who writes, tells, or extensively studies fables” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of fabulist is fabulists.

How many letters and syllables are in fabulist?

Letters8: F-A-B-U-L-I-S-T
In writingabout once in every 18 million words; the 127,184th 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 fabulist?

Fabulist appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th 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 fabulist?

  • /ˈfæbjəlɪst/

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

Forms of fabulist

  • fabulists plural

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

What does fabulist mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A person who writes, tells, or extensively studies fables.

  2. 2

    A liar.

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

Fabulist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanFabeldichter, Fabeldichterin (one who writes or tells fables), Fabulierer, Fabuliererin (a liar)
Portuguesefabulista (one who writes or tells fables)
Spanishfabulista (one who writes or tells fables)
Frenchmythomane (a liar)

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.

Where does fabulist come from?

Borrowed from French fabuliste. By surface analysis, fable + -ist, or, by surface analysis, fabula + -ist. Compare fabular.

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

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