seismologist
noun
seismologist is a noun meaning “A person who is skilled at, professes, or practices seismology” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-I-S-M-O-L-O-G-I-S-T and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of seismologist is seismologists.
What does seismologist mean?
noun
- 1
A person who is skilled at, professes, or practices seismology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce seismologist?
Seismologist 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-seismologist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of seismologist
- seismologists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is seismologist?
Seismologist appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th 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).
Seismologist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who practices seismology:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | seismologiste |
| German | Seismologe, Seismologin |
| Portuguese | sismólogo, sismologista |
| Spanish | sismólogo |
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 seismologist come from?
From seismology + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).