sexologist
"sexologist" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sexologist” is uncommon English (frequency #90,972 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,972
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone who studies, or is an expert in, sex and sexuality.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sexologist · sexologist · English
sexologist · rank #90,972 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,972
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH servlet
Nearest frequency peer: servlet (-3 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.
Long-tail ranks near “sexologist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Seroquel
Seroquel
9,035 corpus weight
- serval
serval
9,033 corpus weight
- servlet
servlet
9,032 corpus weight
- sexologist
sexologist
9,029 corpus weight
- shama
shama
9,026 corpus weight
- Shapps
Shapps
9,024 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sexologist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sexologist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sexologist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sexologist is uncommon English at frequency #90,972 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Someone who studies, or is an expert in, sex and sexuality.".
sexologist has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sex + -ologist. The correct English form is sexologist, spelled S-E-X-O-L-O-G-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Someone who studies, or is an expert in, sex and sexuality.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sexologist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Daniel Bergner, age 48, the divorced father of two teenage children, is what sexologists would call a straight, vanilla teleiophile.
Then there's US sexologist Ray Blanchard, best known for his ... well, problematic concept of autogynyphelia: the idea that trans women are actually men who feel attracted to their female-selves.
Etymology
From sex + -ologist.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).