watercolourist
noun
watercolourist is a noun meaning “An artist who paints watercolours” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-A-T-E-R-C-O-L-O-U-R-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of watercolourist is watercolourists.
What does watercolourist mean?
noun
- 1
An artist who paints watercolours.
Jim's aunt is an avid watercolourist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of watercolourist
- watercolourists plural
- watercolorist
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is watercolourist?
Watercolourist appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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).
Watercolourist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense artist who paints watercolours:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | aquarelista |
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 watercolourist come from?
From watercolour + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).