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Passionist

noun

Passionist is spelled P-A-S-S-I-O-N-I-S-T: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Passionist means “A member of a Roman Catholic religious institute with a special emphasis on the Passion of Jesus Christ” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Passionist is Passionists.

How many letters and syllables are in Passionist?

Letters10: P-A-S-S-I-O-N-I-S-T
In writingabout once in every 56 million words; the 234,209th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is Passionist?

Passionist appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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).

Forms of Passionist

  • Passionists plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does Passionist mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A member of a Roman Catholic religious institute with a special emphasis on the Passion of Jesus Christ.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Passionist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense member of a Roman Catholic institute with emphasis on the Passion:

LanguageWords
Portuguesepassionista
Spanishpasionista

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 Passionist come from?

From passion + -ist.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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