clarinettiste
\kla.ʁi.ne.tist\
The verdict
“clarinettiste” is uncommon French (frequency #77,356 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,356
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui ou celle qui joue de la clarinette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clarinettiste · clarinettiste · French
clarinettiste · rank #77,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,356
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH citerais
Nearest frequency peer: citerais (-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 « clarinettiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cielo
cielo
22,648 corpus weight
- cimenteries
cimenteries
22,647 corpus weight
- citerais
citerais
22,646 corpus weight
- clarinettis…
clarinettiste
22,645 corpus weight
- claro
claro
22,644 corpus weight
- clavicules
clavicules
22,643 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clarinettiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clarinettiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kla.ʁi.ne.tist\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #77,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clarinettiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clarinettiste is uncommon French at frequency #77,356 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kla.ʁi.ne.tist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui ou celle qui joue de la clarinette.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for clarinettiste, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 clarinettiste, spelled C-L-A-R-I-N-E-T-T-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celui ou celle qui joue de la clarinette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clarinettiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il provient, cet homme blanchissant, d’un petit garçon de six ans, qui suivait les musiciens mendiants quand ils traversaient notre village. Il suivit un clarinettiste borgne jusqu’à Saints – quatre kilomètres – et quand il revint, ma mère faisait sonder les puits du pays. Il écouta avec bonté les reproches et les plaintes, car il se fâchait rarement. Qua…
Le clarinettiste polymorphe Michel Portal a fait sauter le couvercle.
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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