fatalist
/ˈfeɪtəlɪst/
"fatalist" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fatalist” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity; a person who believes in fatalism.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fatalist · fatalist · English
fatalist · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | fatalist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfeɪtəlɪst/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fatalist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fatalist is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfeɪtəlɪst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity; a person who believes in fatalism.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fatalist, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From fatal + -ist. The correct English form is fatalist, spelled F-A-T-A-L-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity; a person who believes in fatalism.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fatalist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
....it is that, with every day, my love for you increases—though that would seem to be almost an impossibility. Why should I not become a fatalist? Remember how, on the third day that we ascended the Shlangenberg, I was moved to whisper in your ear: 'Say but the word, and I will leap into the abyss.' Had you said it, I should have leapt. Do you not believ…
“Maybe the problem is that you’re a romantic,” says my former lover-slash-friend-slash-male-sensitivity-reader. “And maybe so are the other fatalists.”
Etymology
From fatal + -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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.