keyboardist

noun

"keyboardist" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“keyboardist” is uncommon English (frequency #51,801 among 9,255 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,801
frequency rank, English
9,255
“K” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Someone who plays a keyboard.

Key facts for keyboardist
PropertyValue
Headwordkeyboardist
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Frequency rank#51,801
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “keyboardist” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). keyboardist lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

keyboardist is uncommon English at frequency #51,801 among 9,255 “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

  1. 1
    Someone who plays a keyboard.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "keyboardist"?
"keyboardist" is spelled K-E-Y-B-O-A-R-D-I-S-T.
What does "keyboardist" mean?
As a noun, "keyboardist" means: Someone who plays a keyboard.
What is the origin of the word "keyboardist"?
From keyboard + -ist. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Using “keyboardist”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is K-E-Y-B-O-A-R-D-I-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words

Other uncommon English words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list