ichthyologist
noun
ichthyologist is a noun meaning “An expert in ichthyology: one who studies fishes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-C-H-T-H-Y-O-L-O-G-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ichthyologist is ichthyologists.
What does ichthyologist mean?
noun
- 1
An expert in ichthyology: one who studies fishes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce ichthyologist?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-ichthyologist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of ichthyologist
- ichthyologists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ichthyologist?
Ichthyologist appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd 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).
Ichthyologist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense expert in ichthyology:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ichthyologue, ichtyologue |
| German | Ichthyologe, Ichthyologin, Fischkundler, Fischkundlerin |
| Portuguese | ictiólogo |
| Spanish | ictiólogo |
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 ichthyologist come from?
From ichthyology + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).