paleoanthropologist
noun
paleoanthropologist is a noun meaning “A scientist who specializes in paleoanthropology” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-L-E-O-A-N-T-H-R-O-P-O-L-O-G-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of paleoanthropologist is paleoanthropologists.
What does paleoanthropologist mean?
noun
- 1
A scientist who specializes in paleoanthropology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of paleoanthropologist
- paleoanthropologists plural
- palaeoanthropologist
- palaeanthropologist
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paleoanthropologist?
Paleoanthropologist appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th 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).
Paleoanthropologist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense specialist in paleoanthropology:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | paléoanthropologue |
| German | Paläoanthropologe, Paläoanthropologin |
| Portuguese | paleoantropólogo, paleoantropologista |
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 paleoanthropologist come from?
From paleo- + anthropology + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).