orthoepist

1. 1.

   a practitioner of orthoepy (especially one of the 17th or 18th century scholars who proposed to reform English spelling so it would reflect pronunciation more closely)

   Broaderphonologist

Other forms of orthoepist

plural

orthoepists·

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 orthoepist

What does orthoepist mean?

orthoepist means "a practitioner of orthoepy (especially one of the 17th or 18th century scholars who proposed to reform English spelling so it would reflect pronunciation more closely)".

How many syllables are in orthoepist?

orthoepist has 4 syllables: or-tho-e-pist. The stress falls on "tho".

Is orthoepist a common word?

orthoepist is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.