frequentist
noun, adjective
frequentist is a noun meaning “An advocate of frequentism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-Q-U-E-N-T-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frequentist is frequentists.
What does frequentist mean?
noun
- 1
An advocate of frequentism.
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to frequentism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of frequentist
- frequentists plural
- more frequentist comparative
- most frequentist superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is frequentist?
Frequentist appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th 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).
Frequentist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense advocate of frequency probability:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fréquenciste, fréquentiste |
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 frequentist come from?
From frequent + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).