separatist
sep·a·ra·tist/ˈsɛpəɹətɪst/noun, adjective
separatist is spelled S-E-P-A-R-A-T-I-S-T, 4 syllables: sep·a·ra·tist. The wrong spelling people search most is seperatist: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Separatist is a noun meaning “Someone who advocates separation from the established Church; a member of any of various sects or schismatic…”. The plural of separatist is separatists.
How many letters and syllables are in separatist?
| Letters | 10: S-E-P-A-R-A-T-I-S-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: sep·a·ra·tist |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 24,745th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, seperatist, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell separatist?
Separatist is spelled S-E-P-A-R-A-T-I-S-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for separatist in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is separatist?
Separatist appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th 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).
How do you pronounce separatist?
- /ˈsɛpəɹətɪst/
Separatist has 4 syllables, split sep·a·ra·tist in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-separatist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of separatist
- separatists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does separatist mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone who advocates separation from the established Church; a member of any of various sects or schismatic movements.
- 2
A person who advocates or seeks the splitting of one country or territory into two politically independent countries or territories.
Near-synonym: secessionist
adjective
- 1
Advocating ecclesiastical separation.
- 2
Advocating or seeking the separation of one country or territory into two politically independent countries or territories.
He is a Scottish nationalist and has a large collection of separatist literature.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Separatist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | séparatiste |
| German | Separatist, Separatistin , separatistisch |
| Portuguese | separatista |
| Spanish | separatista |
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 separatist come from?
From separate + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).