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journalist

/ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/noun

journalist is spelled J-O-U-R-N-A-L-I-S-T: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 24 times per million words in written English, the 3,752nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, journalist means “The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of journalist is journalists.

How many letters and syllables are in journalist?

Letters10: J-O-U-R-N-A-L-I-S-T
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing24 times per million words; the 3,752nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is journalist?

Journalist appears 24 times per million words in written English, the 3,752nd 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).

How do you pronounce journalist?

  • US /ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/
  • UK /ˈd͡ʒɜːnəlɪst/

Journalist has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-journalist.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of journalist

  • journalists plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does journalist mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly.

  2. 2

    One whose occupation is journalism, originally only writing in the printed press.

  3. 3

    A reporter, someone who professionally reports on news and current events.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate journalist?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of journalist: jnlst.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Journalist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchjournaliste (one whose occupation or profession is journalism)
GermanJournalist, Journalistin (one whose occupation or profession is journalism), Reporter, Reporterin (reporter)
Portuguesejornalista, periodista (one whose occupation or profession is journalism), repórter (reporter)
Spanishperiodista (one whose occupation or profession is journalism), reportero (reporter), diarista (keeper of a personal journal)

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 journalist come from?

From journal + -ist.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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