nephrologist
noun
nephrologist is a noun meaning “A physician whose speciality is nephrology” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-P-H-R-O-L-O-G-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nephrologist is nephrologists.
What does nephrologist mean?
noun
- 1
A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of nephrologist
- nephrologists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nephrologist?
Nephrologist appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st 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).
Nephrologist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense physician:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | néphrologue |
| German | Nephrologe, Nierenarzt |
| Portuguese | nefrologista |
| Spanish | nefrólogo, nefróloga |
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 nephrologist come from?
From nephrology + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).