keyboardist
"keyboardist" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“keyboardist” is uncommon English (frequency #51,801 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,801
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone who plays a keyboard.
Corpus desk
Index EN-keyboardist · keyboardist · English
keyboardist · rank #51,801 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,801
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH kes
Nearest frequency peer: kes (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “keyboardist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kenan
Kenan
48,203 corpus weight
- Kentish
Kentish
48,202 corpus weight
- kes
kes
48,201 corpus weight
- keyboardist
keyboardist
48,200 corpus weight
- Keyser
Keyser
48,199 corpus weight
- Kinnear
Kinnear
48,197 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “keyboardist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | keyboardist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “keyboardist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
keyboardist is uncommon English at frequency #51,801 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Someone who plays a keyboard.".
Zero misspellings are on record for keyboardist in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From keyboard + -ist. The correct English form is keyboardist, spelled K-E-Y-B-O-A-R-D-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Someone who plays a keyboard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how keyboardist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The absence of keyboardist Sadie Shaw (who split for the Bay Area garage rawkers the Husbands) allows the group more space to indulge in dark wordless experiments; […]
Since the 1960s, the keyboardist, vibraphonist and percussionist Mulatu Astatke has been a prime mover in Ethio-jazz: unmistakably Ethiopian music that also draws on American jazz, Afro-Caribbean music and more.
Etymology
From keyboard + -ist.
Synonyms
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).