fashionista
/ˌfæ.ʃəˈnɪ.stə/
"fashionista" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fashionista” is uncommon English (frequency #50,505 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,505
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who creates or promotes high fashion, i.e. a fashion designer or fashion editor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fashionista · fashionista · English
fashionista · rank #50,505 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,505
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fairtrade
Nearest frequency peer: fairtrade (-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 “fashionista”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- expletive
expletive
49,501 corpus weight
- fain
fain
49,498 corpus weight
- fairtrade
fairtrade
49,497 corpus weight
- fashionista
fashionista
49,496 corpus weight
- favela
favela
49,494 corpus weight
- ferrying
ferrying
49,492 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fashionista” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fashionista |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌfæ.ʃəˈnɪ.stə/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #50,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fashionista” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fashionista is uncommon English at frequency #50,505 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌfæ.ʃəˈnɪ.stə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
fashionista doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From fashion + -ista. Compare earlier Sandinista, Peronista, Guardianista. Piecewise doublet of earlier fashionist. The correct English form is fashionista, spelled F-A-S-H-I-O-N-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1A person who creates or promotes high fashion, i.e. a fashion designer or fashion editor.
- 2A person who dresses according to the trends of fashion, or one who closely follows those trends.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fashionista appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toronto fashionista Suzanne Boyd, editor-in-chief of the soon-to-be-launched Zoomer magazine, recently moved back to Canada after living in Manhattan for the past four years.
Etymology
From fashion + -ista. Compare earlier Sandinista, Peronista, Guardianista. Piecewise doublet of earlier fashionist.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).