physicist

Other forms of physicist

plural

physicists·

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 physicist

What does physicist mean?

physicist means "a scientist trained in physics".

How many syllables are in physicist?

physicist has 3 syllables: phys-i-cist. The stress falls on "phys". In IPA it is /ˈfɪzɪsɪst/.

Is physicist a common word?

physicist 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.