What does physicist mean?
Word: Physicist
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Physicist means a scientist who studies energy, force, motion, light, heat and how matter behaves.
Synonyms: scientist
How do you spell physicist?
Syllables: phys - i - cist
Tricky part: It begins with ph and then a y, so phisicist and fisicist are both wrong.
Watch out for: phisicist, fisicist, fysicist
Memory tip: The y after ph sounds like the short i in gym: picture a physicist working out in a gym to remember that y.
Physicist in a sentence
Example 1: Marie Curie was a physicist who won the Nobel Prize twice.
Example 2: The physicist explained why the sky looks blue using a torch and a glass of milky water.
Example 3: My sister wants to become a physicist and study black holes.
Fun Fact
The word physicist was coined in 1840 by the English scholar William Whewell, who had earlier coined the word scientist.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) geologist
b) astronomer
c) physisist
d) biologist
Show answer
c) physisist. That s sound is spelt with a c, not an s.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
phys_c_st
a) i, i
b) i, e
c) a, i
d) e, i
Show answer
a) i, i. Both gaps take i: phys-i-c-ist.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
sicphytis
a) pacifist
b) typist
c) physicist
d) psychiatrist
Show answer
c) physicist. Pacifist needs an a and an f, typist is far too short, and psychiatrist needs an r and an a; the jumble gives physicist.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The young physicist repeated the experement three times before she trusted the result.
a) physicist
b) repeated
c) experement
d) result
Show answer
c) experement. Experiment has an i after the r.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which question would a physicist try to answer?
a) Why does a ball fall back to the ground?
b) Which acid is found in lemon juice?
c) Why do some plants grow thorns?
d) When was the Eiffel Tower built?
Show answer
a) Why does a ball fall back to the ground?
2. Which famous scientist was a physicist?
a) Carl Linnaeus
b) Louis Pasteur
c) Charles Darwin
d) Albert Einstein
Show answer
d) Albert Einstein
