philatelist
/fɪˈlætəlɪst/noun
philatelist is a noun meaning “A person who collects and studies postage stamps” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-H-I-L-A-T-E-L-I-S-T and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of philatelist is philatelists.
What does philatelist mean?
noun
- 1
A person who collects and studies postage stamps.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce philatelist?
- /fɪˈlætəlɪst/
Philatelist has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-philatelist.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of philatelist
- philatelists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is philatelist?
Philatelist appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th 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).
Philatelist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a person who studies or collects stamps:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | philatéliste |
| German | Philatelist, Philatelistin, Briefmarkensammler, Briefmarkensammlerin |
| Portuguese | filatelista |
| Spanish | filatelista, filatélico |
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 philatelist come from?
From philately + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).