medalist

Other forms of medalist

plural

medalists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about medalist

What does medalist mean?

medalist means "someone who has won a medal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in medalist?

medalist has 3 syllables: med-a-list. The stress falls on "med". In IPA it is /ˈmɛdəlɪst/.

What is another word for medalist?

Close synonyms include medallist, medallist, medal winner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is medalist a common word?

medalist is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.