Chostakovitch
\ʃɔs.ka.kɔ.vitʃ\
The verdict
“Chostakovitch” is uncommon French (frequency #64,317 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,317
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, surtout connu pour le compositeur soviétique Dmitri Chostakovitch (1906-1975)
Corpus desk
Index FR-chostakovitch · Chostakovitch · French
Chostakovitch · rank #64,317 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,317
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chouchouter
Nearest frequency peer: chouchouter (+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 « Chostakovitch »
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- Chibougamau
Chibougamau
35,686 corpus weight
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Chostakovitch
35,684 corpus weight
- chouchouter
chouchouter
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clarifications
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- Cléon
Cléon
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What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chostakovitch » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chostakovitch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃɔs.ka.kɔ.vitʃ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #64,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chostakovitch » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chostakovitch is uncommon French at frequency #64,317 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃɔs.ka.kɔ.vitʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille, surtout connu pour le compositeur soviétique Dmitri Chostakovitch (1906-1975)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Chostakovitch, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Chostakovitch, spelled C-H-O-S-T-A-K-O-V-I-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, surtout connu pour le compositeur soviétique Dmitri Chostakovitch (1906-1975)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Chostakovitch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour les plus grands, l’orchestre donne aussi, à 17 heures, un concert autour d’œuvres de Richard Strauss, Chostakovitch et Lili Boulanger, jeune compositrice morte à 24 ans.
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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