internist
"internist" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“internist” is uncommon English (frequency #65,213 among 17,902 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,213
- frequency rank, English
- 17,902
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A physician who specialises in internal medicine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | internist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “internist” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
internist is uncommon English at frequency #65,213 among 17,902 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A physician who specialises in internal medicine.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for internist, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From German Internist, corresponding to intern (“internal”) + -ist. The correct English form is internist, spelled I-N-T-E-R-N-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A physician who specialises in internal medicine.
Etymology
From German Internist, corresponding to intern (“internal”) + -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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Using “internist”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-N-T-E-R-N-I-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.