humorist
"humorist" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“humorist” is uncommon English (frequency #56,812 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,812
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours; a humoralist.
Corpus desk
Index EN-humorist · humorist · English
humorist · rank #56,812 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,812
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hyaluronic
Nearest frequency peer: hyaluronic (+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 “humorist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- holdout
holdout
43,193 corpus weight
- honoree
honoree
43,192 corpus weight
- Horsley
Horsley
43,191 corpus weight
- humorist
humorist
43,189 corpus weight
- hyaluronic
hyaluronic
43,188 corpus weight
- hydrologic
hydrologic
43,186 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “humorist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | humorist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “humorist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
humorist is uncommon English at frequency #56,812 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
humorist has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From humor + -ist. The correct English form is humorist, spelled H-U-M-O-R-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours; a humoralist.
- 2Someone subject to whims or fancies; an eccentric.
- 3A humorous or witty person, especially someone skilled in humorous writing or performance.
- 4One who studies or portrays the humours of people.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how humorist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She and the duke used to rally me upon my fondness for lord W—m, who was a sort of an humourist, and apt to be in a pet, in which case he would leave the company, and go to bed by seven o'clock in the evening.
I called on him and found him a contemporary of Beauclerk and Langton at Trinity College, Oxford, and a man of reading and animation, but a kind of humourist.
Etymology
From humor + -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); 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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