occultist
/əˈkʌltɪst/
"occultist" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“occultist” is uncommon English (frequency #70,132 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,132
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who practises or studies occultism; a practitioner of, or person learned in, the occult.
Corpus desk
Index EN-occultist · occultist · English
occultist · rank #70,132 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,132
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH Obie
Nearest frequency peer: Obie (-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 “occultist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Obie
Obie
29,870 corpus weight
- occultist
occultist
29,869 corpus weight
- Oort
Oort
29,866 corpus weight
- orf
orf
29,865 corpus weight
- ornithologi…
ornithologist
29,864 corpus weight
- overburden
overburden
29,862 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “occultist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “occultist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
occultist is uncommon English at frequency #70,132 among 1,431 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how occultist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Albertus Magnus, the thirteenth century philosopher and occultist, states that coriander, valerian, and violet are love producing herbs.
In the early 1930s, he fell under the spell of a wife-beating, alcoholic, Austrian occultist called Karl Maria Wiligut and a Dutch prehistorian called Herman Wirth, whose views further fed his fantastical illusions.
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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