horologist
noun
horologist is a noun meaning “A person skilled in horology, particularly a person who makes or repairs timekeeping devices” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-R-O-L-O-G-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of horologist is horologists.
What does horologist mean?
noun
- 1
A person skilled in horology, particularly a person who makes or repairs timekeeping devices.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of horologist
- horologists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is horologist?
Horologist appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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).
Horologist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a person who makes or repairs timekeeping devices:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | horloger, horlogère |
| German | Uhrmacher, Uhrmacherin |
| Portuguese | relojeiro |
| Spanish | relojero |
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 horologist come from?
From horology + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).