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harpsichordist

noun

harpsichordist is spelled H-A-R-P-S-I-C-H-O-R-D-I-S-T: 14 letters. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, harpsichordist means “One who plays the harpsichord” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of harpsichordist is harpsichordists.

How many letters and syllables are in harpsichordist?

Letters14: H-A-R-P-S-I-C-H-O-R-D-I-S-T
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 154,067th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is harpsichordist?

Harpsichordist appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce harpsichordist?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-harpsichordist.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of harpsichordist

  • harpsichordists plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does harpsichordist mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    One who plays the harpsichord.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Harpsichordist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense one who plays the harpsichord:

LanguageWords
Frenchclaveciniste
GermanCembalist, Cembalistin
Portuguesecravista
Spanishclavecinista, clavicembalista

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does harpsichordist come from?

From harpsichord + -ist.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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