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recordist

noun

recordist is a noun meaning “Someone who makes sound recordings” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-C-O-R-D-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of recordist is recordists.

What does recordist mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Someone who makes sound recordings.

  2. 2

    Someone who plays a recorder.

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

Forms of recordist

  • recordists plural

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

How common is recordist?

Recordist appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st 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).

Where does recordist come from?

From record + -ist.

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