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Spell Bee Word: Linguist

Linguist (noun): a person who studies languages and how they work, or someone who can speak several languages well.


What does linguist mean?

Word: Linguist

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Linguist means a person who studies languages and how they work, or someone who can speak several languages well.

How do you spell linguist?

Syllables: lin - guist

Tricky part: The gw sound is spelt gu, as in language, and many students write w.

Watch out for: lingust, lingwist, linquist

Memory tip: Linguist borrows the ngu of language. Write language, then linguist, and you will see the same letters after the n.

Linguist in a sentence

Example 1: The linguist recorded old folk songs to study a language spoken in a few remote mountain villages.

Example 2: My aunt is a linguist who speaks Tamil, Spanish, French and Japanese.

Example 3: Linguists study how small children pick up their first words.

Fun Fact

Around 7,000 languages are spoken in the world today, which gives a linguist plenty to study.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) transletor
b) linguist
c) interpretter
d) grammerian

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b) linguist. Translator, interpreter and grammarian are the correct forms of the other three.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

linguisst

a) u
b) t
c) s
d) i

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c) s. Linguist ends in ist with one s, like artist.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tisgunil

a) lingual
b) singular
c) linguist
d) insulting

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c) linguist. Lingual and singular need an a, and insulting a second n, so only linguist uses all eight letters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which job would suit a linguist best?

a) flying passenger planes overseas
b) treating patients in a busy hospital
c) translating at a meeting of world leaders
d) designing bridges over a wide river

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c) translating at a meeting of world leaders

2. Which question might a linguist try to answer?

a) Why do Spanish and Portuguese sound so alike?
b) What is the boiling point of water?
c) How fast can a cheetah run?
d) How tall is Mount Everest?

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a) Why do Spanish and Portuguese sound so alike?

Associated Words

Words that end in -ist: archaeologist, entomologist, physiotherapist, meteorologist, sociologist, hygienist

More words from this list

payroll, sergeant, unforgettable, advertising, blubber, convenience, embarrass, grievance

Next steps

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