novelist

Other forms of novelist

plural

novelists·

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 novelist

What does novelist mean?

novelist means "one who writes novels".

How many syllables are in novelist?

novelist has 3 syllables: no-ve-list. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /ˈnɑvələst/.

Is novelist a common word?

novelist is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.