rationalist
"rationalist" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rationalist” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,581. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,581
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who follows the philosophy of rationalism.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rationalist · rationalist · English
rationalist · rank #49,581 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,581
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rafter
Nearest frequency peer: rafter (-2 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “rationalist”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- pyrite
pyrite
50,427 corpus weight
- Quayle
Quayle
50,425 corpus weight
- quitter
quitter
50,424 corpus weight
- rafter
rafter
50,422 corpus weight
- rationalist
rationalist
50,420 corpus weight
- reedy
reedy
50,417 corpus weight
What this shows “rationalist” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rationalist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #49,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “rationalist”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around rationalist, anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,581 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for rationalist, with forms such as "artionalist", "raitonalist", and "ratinoalist". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "rationality", "rationalize", "rationalism", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French rationaliste; rational + -ist. The correct English form is rationalist, spelled R-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A person who follows the philosophy of rationalism.
- 2A member of the rationalist community.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rationalist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“He says,” replied Lord Peter, “that he believes Hannah to be a sincerely religious woman. He has sat beside her in chapel and shared her hymn-book.” “But that may be the merest hypocrisy,” said Miss Murchison, rather warmly, for she was militantly rationalist. “I don’t trust these unctuous people.”
Some rationalists were in touch with Oxford philosophers, including Toby Ord and William MacAskill, the founders of the effective-altruism movement, which studied how to do the most good for humanity (and, by extension, how to avoid ending it).
Etymology
From Middle French rationaliste; rational + -ist.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- artionalist
- raitonalist
- ratinoalist
- ratioanlist
- rationailst
- rationalisst
- rationalistt
- rationalits
- rationallist
- rationalsit
- rationlaist
- rationnalist
- ratoinalist
- rattionalist
- rrationalist
- rtaionalist
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rationalist - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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