hypnotist
/ˈhɪpnətɪst/
"hypnotist" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hypnotist” is uncommon English (frequency #53,008 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,008
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who uses hypnotism to induce hypnosis in someone, either for entertainment or therapy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hypnotist · hypnotist · English
hypnotist · rank #53,008 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,008
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hypothesize
Nearest frequency peer: hypothesize (+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 “hypnotist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Hortense
Hortense
46,998 corpus weight
- hulking
hulking
46,996 corpus weight
- hypnotist
hypnotist
46,993 corpus weight
- hypothesize
hypothesize
46,992 corpus weight
- IFR
IFR
46,990 corpus weight
- Iloilo
Iloilo
46,988 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hypnotist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hypnotist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhɪpnətɪst/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hypnotist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hypnotist is uncommon English at frequency #53,008 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈhɪpnətɪst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who uses hypnotism to induce hypnosis in someone, either for entertainment or therapy.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hypnotist in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hypnotise + -ist. The correct English form is hypnotist, spelled H-Y-P-N-O-T-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A person who uses hypnotism to induce hypnosis in someone, either for entertainment or therapy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hypnotist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Following their modelling of Perls and Satir, Bandler and Grinder went on to model Milton H. Erickson, the world’s foremost medical hypnotist. The result was a different set of language patterns, the Milton Model, and the publication of the second NLP book, Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson MD.
Etymology
From hypnotise + -ist.
Synonyms
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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