volcanologist
/ˌvɒl.kəˈnɒ.lə.dʒɪst/noun
volcanologist is a noun meaning “One who is skilled in, professes or practices volcanology” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-L-C-A-N-O-L-O-G-I-S-T and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of volcanologist is volcanologists.
What does volcanologist mean?
noun
- 1
One who is skilled in, professes or practices volcanology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce volcanologist?
- UK /ˌvɒl.kəˈnɒ.lə.dʒɪst/
Volcanologist has 5 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: En-us-volcanologist.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of volcanologist
- volcanologists plural
- vulcanologist
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is volcanologist?
Volcanologist appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th 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).
Volcanologist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who studies volcanology:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | volcanologue |
| German | Vulkanologe, Vulkanologin |
| Portuguese | vulcanólogo, vulcanóloga, vulcanologista |
| Spanish | vulcanólogo, vulcanóloga |
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 volcanologist come from?
From volcanology + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).