sensualist

noun

"sensualist" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“sensualist” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who believes in enjoying sensuality and the experience of pleasant sensations.

Corpus desk

Index EN-sensualist · sensualist · English

sensualist · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "S" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for sensualist
PropertyValue
Headwordsensualist
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “sensualist” in English

sensualistranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sensualist is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

sensualist has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From sensual + -ist. The correct English form is sensualist, spelled S-E-N-S-U-A-L-I-S-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    A person who believes in enjoying sensuality and the experience of pleasant sensations.
  2. 2
    One who holds to the doctrine of sensualism.

Etymology

From sensual + -ist.

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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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sensualist"?
"sensualist" is spelled S-E-N-S-U-A-L-I-S-T.
What does "sensualist" mean?
As a noun, "sensualist" means: A person who believes in enjoying sensuality and the experience of pleasant sensations.
What is the origin of the word "sensualist"?
From sensual + -ist. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list