microbiologist
"microbiologist" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“microbiologist” is uncommon English (frequency #59,548 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,548
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A biologist whose speciality is microbiology.
Corpus desk
Index EN-microbiologist · microbiologist · English
microbiologist · rank #59,548 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,548
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH minibar
Nearest frequency peer: minibar (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “microbiologist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Medellín
Medellín
40,458 corpus weight
- melamine
melamine
40,456 corpus weight
- menorah
menorah
40,455 corpus weight
- microbiolog…
microbiologist
40,453 corpus weight
- minibar
minibar
40,452 corpus weight
- missal
missal
40,447 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “microbiologist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | microbiologist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #59,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “microbiologist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
microbiologist is uncommon English at frequency #59,548 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A biologist whose speciality is microbiology.".
No misspelling variants are generated for microbiologist in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From micro- + biologist. The correct English form is microbiologist, spelled M-I-C-R-O-B-I-O-L-O-G-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A biologist whose speciality is microbiology.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how microbiologist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a tour of the cavernous and gleaming BrewDog plant in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, Dickie happily batted around terminology – IBU, ABV, pH, haze, present gravity, headspace oxygen – with PhD-level microbiologists working in the lab.
No, because we obsessively clean it (or use paper coverings at work), said microbiologist Charles Gerba, a professor of public health, environmental science and immunology at the University of Arizona.
Etymology
From micro- + biologist.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).