claveciniste

\klav.si.nist\

/\klav.si.nist\/ noun

The verdict

“claveciniste” is uncommon French (frequency #96,755 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#96,755
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Joueur ou joueuse de clavecin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-claveciniste · claveciniste · French

claveciniste · rank #96,755 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #96,755
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH chroniquement

Nearest frequency peer: chroniquement (-2 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 « claveciniste »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « claveciniste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for claveciniste
PropertyValue
Headwordclaveciniste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\klav.si.nist\
Letters12
Frequency rank#96,755
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « claveciniste » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.clavecinistetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « chroniquement » (#96,753), « christologique » (#96,752), « clocharde » (#96,758). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « claveciniste » est au #96,755. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

claveciniste is uncommon French at frequency #96,755 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klav.si.nist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Joueur ou joueuse de clavecin.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for claveciniste, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is claveciniste, spelled C-L-A-V-E-C-I-N-I-S-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Joueur ou joueuse de clavecin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how claveciniste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. C'était en 1780. Arrivé dans la capitale , Méhul choisit pour son maître Edelman, claveciniste fameux et compositeur habile.
  2. Le claveciniste Pierre Hantaï fait également partie des musiciens attendus.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "claveciniste"?
"claveciniste" is spelled C-L-A-V-E-C-I-N-I-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \klav.si.nist\.
What does "claveciniste" mean?
As a noun, "claveciniste" means: Joueur ou joueuse de clavecin.
How do you pronounce "claveciniste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "claveciniste" is \klav.si.nist\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "claveciniste" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "claveciniste", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list