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belletrist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
bel-letrist
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who writes or is concerned with belles-lettres

Etymology

Borrowed from German Belletrist, coined by Goethe. Equivalent to belles-lettres + -ist.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

belletrists (plural)

Derived Forms

belletristic

Questions

What does belletrist mean?
A person who writes or is concerned with belles-lettres
Where does belletrist come from?
It is traced to German.

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