logician
/ləˈd͡ʒɪʃən/noun
logician is a noun meaning “A person who studies or teaches logic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-O-G-I-C-I-A-N and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of logician is logicians.
What does logician mean?
noun
- 1
A person who studies or teaches logic.
“To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are.” ― “The Greek Interpreter”, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1894
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce logician?
- /ləˈd͡ʒɪʃən/
Logician 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-logician.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of logician
- logicians plural
- logitian
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is logician?
Logician appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 81,375th 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).
Logician in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who studies or teaches logic:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | logicien, logicienne |
| German | Logiker, Logikerin |
| Portuguese | lógico |
| Spanish | lógico, lógica |
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 logician come from?
From Middle English logicien, logissian, from Old French logicien. Equivalent to logic + -ian.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).