mathematician
/ˌmæθ.(ə.)məˈtɪʃ.ən/noun
mathematician is spelled M-A-T-H-E-M-A-T-I-C-I-A-N. The wrong spelling people search most is mathmatician: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Mathematician is a noun meaning “An expert on mathematics; someone who studies mathematics”. The plural of mathematician is mathematicians.
How many letters and syllables are in mathematician?
| Letters | 13: M-A-T-H-E-M-A-T-I-C-I-A-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,209th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, mathmatician, about 80 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell mathematician?
Mathematician is spelled M-A-T-H-E-M-A-T-I-C-I-A-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for mathematician in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is mathematician?
Mathematician appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,209th 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 mathematician?
- US /ˌmæθ.(ə.)məˈtɪʃ.ən/
- /ˌmɛθ.(ə.)məˈtəʃ.ən/
Mathematician has 5 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-us-mathematician.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with mathematician?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as mathematician from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃən/):
- position
- competition
- opposition
- permission
- composition
- acquisition
- coalition
- physician
- politician
- admission
- nutrition
- expedition
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of mathematician
- mathematicians plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does mathematician mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An expert on mathematics; someone who studies mathematics.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Mathematician in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense expert in mathematics:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | mathématicien, mathématicienne |
| German | Mathematiker, Mathematikerin |
| Portuguese | matemático, matemática |
| Spanish | matemático, matemática |
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 mathematician come from?
From Middle English mathematicion, from Middle French mathematicien, from mathematique f sg (“mathematics”) (from Latin mathēmatica, feminine of mathēmaticus, from Ancient Greek μαθηματικός (mathēmatikós, “fond of learning”), from μάθημα (máthēma, “knowledge, learning”) + -ικός (-ikós)) + Middle French -ien (from Latin -iānus). Displaced native Old English rīmcræftiga. By surface analysis, mathematic + -ian.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).