contrabassist

noun

"contrabassist" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“contrabassist” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone who plays the contrabass.

Corpus desk

Index EN-contrabassist · contrabassist · English

contrabassist · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for contrabassist
PropertyValue
Headwordcontrabassist
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “contrabassist” in English

contrabassistsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

contrabassist is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Someone who plays the contrabass.".

No misspelling variants are generated for contrabassist in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: From contrabass + -ist. The correct English form is contrabassist, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-B-A-S-S-I-S-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Someone who plays the contrabass.

Etymology

From contrabass + -ist.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "contrabassist"?
"contrabassist" is spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-B-A-S-S-I-S-T.
What does "contrabassist" mean?
As a noun, "contrabassist" means: Someone who plays the contrabass.
What is the origin of the word "contrabassist"?
From contrabass + -ist. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list