choriste
\kɔ.ʁist\
The verdict
“choriste” is uncommon French (frequency #50,719 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,719
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chantre du chœur dans une église, chanteur dans une chorale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-choriste · choriste · French
choriste · rank #50,719 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,719
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chir
Nearest frequency peer: Chir (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « choriste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chercherais
chercherais
49,285 corpus weight
- chia
chia
49,284 corpus weight
- Chir
Chir
49,283 corpus weight
- choriste
choriste
49,282 corpus weight
- châtier
châtier
49,281 corpus weight
- Cilicie
Cilicie
49,280 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « choriste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | choriste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁist\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « choriste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
choriste is uncommon French at frequency #50,719 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.ʁist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chantre du chœur dans une église, chanteur dans une chorale.".
choriste has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is choriste, spelled C-H-O-R-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Chantre du chœur dans une église, chanteur dans une chorale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how choriste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les heures comprennent surtout des psaumes et elles sont chantées au chœur dans le texte latin. Les choristes de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec se rendaient donc plusieurs fois par jour au chœur pour psalmodier.
J’étais heureux pour Martine, petite choriste anonyme, dont personne ne connaîtrait jamais le nom, mais pourtant saluée chaque soir, applaudie, pour la portion de poésie qu’elle avait apportée à l’œuvre.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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