virologist
/vɪˈɹɒlədʒɪst/noun
virologist is a noun meaning “A scientist or doctor who studies or specializes in viruses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-R-O-L-O-G-I-S-T and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of virologist is virologists.
What does virologist mean?
noun
- 1
A scientist or doctor who studies or specializes in viruses.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce virologist?
- /vɪˈɹɒlədʒɪst/
- /vaɪˈɹɒlədʒɪst/
Virologist has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-virologist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of virologist
- virologists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is virologist?
Virologist appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 78,613th 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).
Virologist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense scientist or doctor specializing in virology:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | virologue, virologiste |
| German | Virologe |
| Portuguese | virólogo, viróloga, virologista |
| Spanish | virólogo, viróloga |
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 virologist come from?
From virology + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).