occultist
/əˈkʌltɪst/
"occultist" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“occultist” is uncommon English (frequency #70,132 among 15,494 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,132
- frequency rank, English
- 15,494
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A person who practises or studies occultism; a practitioner of, or person learned in, the occult.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | occultist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈkʌltɪst/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “occultist” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
occultist is uncommon English at frequency #70,132 among 15,494 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈkʌltɪst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who practises or studies occultism; a practitioner of, or person learned in, the occult.".
occultist has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From occult + -ist. The correct English form is occultist, spelled O-C-C-U-L-T-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A person who practises or studies occultism; a practitioner of, or person learned in, the occult.
Etymology
From occult + -ist.
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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Using “occultist”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is O-C-C-U-L-T-I-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.