Violinist
[vi̯oliˈnɪst]
The verdict
“Violinist” is uncommon German (frequency #97,924 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,924
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die Violine spielt
Corpus desk
Index DE-violinist · Violinist · German
Violinist · rank #97,924 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,924
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Vinothek
Nearest frequency peer: Vinothek (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Violinist“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Videorekord…
Videorekorder
2,081 corpus weight
- Villenviert…
Villenviertel
2,079 corpus weight
- Vinothek
Vinothek
2,078 corpus weight
- Violinist
Violinist
2,077 corpus weight
- Vishnu
Vishnu
2,076 corpus weight
- Vorbemerkun…
Vorbemerkungen
2,073 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Violinist“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Violinist |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [vi̯oliˈnɪst] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Violinist“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Violinist is uncommon German at frequency #97,924 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [vi̯oliˈnɪst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die Violine spielt".
Violinist has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Violinist, spelled V-I-O-L-I-N-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Person, die Violine spielt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Violinist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Schließlich ist der Mann ein gefeierter Violinist und Dirigent, der im zarten Alter von sieben Jahren im japanischen Fernsehen als Geigen-Wunderkind herumgereicht wurde, und obendrein Spross einer der einflussreichsten Familien Japans.“
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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