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surrealist

adjective, noun

surrealist is spelled S-U-R-R-E-A-L-I-S-T: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, surrealist means “Of, or relating to the modernist art movement surrealism; (by extension) having a similar surreal aesthetic or narrative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in surrealist?

Letters10: S-U-R-R-E-A-L-I-S-T
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 39,336th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 surrealist?

Surrealist appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th 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 surrealist?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-surrealist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of surrealist

  • more surrealist comparative
  • most surrealist superlative
  • surrealists plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does surrealist mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, or relating to the modernist art movement surrealism; (by extension) having a similar surreal aesthetic or narrative.

noun

  1. 1

    A surrealist artist.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Surrealist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsurréaliste (of, or relating to surrealism)
Germansurrealistisch (of, or relating to surrealism), Surrealist (surrealist artist)
Spanishsurrealista (of, or relating to surrealism)

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.

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