somnambulist
[sɒmˈnæmbjʊlɪst]noun
somnambulist is spelled S-O-M-N-A-M-B-U-L-I-S-T: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, somnambulist means “A person who walks about in their sleep; a sleepwalker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of somnambulist is somnambulists.
How many letters and syllables are in somnambulist?
| Letters | 12: S-O-M-N-A-M-B-U-L-I-S-T |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 22 million words; the 143,405th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is somnambulist?
Somnambulist appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th 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 somnambulist?
- UK [sɒmˈnæmbjʊlɪst]
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-somnambulist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of somnambulist
- somnambulists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does somnambulist mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person who walks about in their sleep; a sleepwalker.
He must have promptly rejected an alternative explanation which would better fulfill the demands of verisimilitude (“My wife, poor thing, in her nervous condition, now is afflicted also with sleepwalking!”), seeing the laborious tasks to wh
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Somnambulist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a sleepwalker:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | somnambule |
| German | Schlafwandler, Schlafwandlerin |
| Portuguese | sonâmbulo, sonâmbula |
| Spanish | sonámbulo, somnámbulo |
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 somnambulist come from?
Borrowed from French somnambuliste, from Medieval Latin somnambulus (“sleepwalker”). By surface analysis, somn- + -ambulist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).