claviériste
\kla.vje.ʁist\
The verdict
“claviériste” is uncommon French (frequency #57,828 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,828
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Musicien qui joue d’un instrument à clavier, traditionnellement les pianistes et les organistes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | claviériste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kla.vje.ʁist\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “claviériste” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
claviériste is uncommon French at frequency #57,828 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kla.vje.ʁist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for claviériste, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 claviériste, spelled C-L-A-V-I-É-R-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Musicien qui joue d’un instrument à clavier, traditionnellement les pianistes et les organistes.
- 2instrumentiste jouant d’un nouvel instrument à clavier.
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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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-L-A-V-I-É-R-I-S-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kla.vje.ʁist\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.