racialist
"racialist" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“racialist” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A believer or advocate of racialism, the ideology of racial nationalism.
Corpus desk
Index EN-racialist · racialist · English
racialist · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | racialist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “racialist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
racialist is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for racialist, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: 1910 (noun), 1917 (adjective). racial + -ist, from older racialism (1882). The correct English form is racialist, spelled R-A-C-I-A-L-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A believer or advocate of racialism, the ideology of racial nationalism.
- 2A racist.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how racialist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was a fundamentally racialist attitude which regarded the native people of empire countries as primitive simpletons only fit to be led by a breed of men of higher intellect and moral fibre.
Etymology
1910 (noun), 1917 (adjective). racial + -ist, from older racialism (1882).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.