lepidopterist
noun
lepidopterist is a noun meaning “Someone who studies lepidoptery; someone who studies butterflies and moths” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-E-P-I-D-O-P-T-E-R-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lepidopterist is lepidopterists.
What does lepidopterist mean?
noun
- 1
Someone who studies lepidoptery; someone who studies butterflies and moths.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of lepidopterist
- lepidopterists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lepidopterist?
Lepidopterist appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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).
Lepidopterist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Lepidopterologe, Lepidopterologin, Schmetterlingskundler |
| Portuguese | aureliano, lepidopterologista |
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 lepidopterist come from?
From lepidoptery + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).