claviériste
\kla.vje.ʁist\
The verdict
“claviériste” is uncommon French (frequency #57,828 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,828
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Musicien qui joue d’un instrument à clavier, traditionnellement les pianistes et les organistes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clavieriste · claviériste · French
claviériste · rank #57,828 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,828
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH classeurs
Nearest frequency peer: classeurs (-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 « claviériste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chopes
chopes
42,176 corpus weight
- citronnelle
citronnelle
42,175 corpus weight
- classeurs
classeurs
42,174 corpus weight
- claviériste
claviériste
42,173 corpus weight
- clodos
clodos
42,172 corpus weight
- CNED
CNED
42,171 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « claviériste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « claviériste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
claviériste is uncommon French at frequency #57,828 among 8,609 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how claviériste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lou assurait désormais toutes les guitares et son fidèle collaborateur, le claviériste Michael Fonfara, se chargeait de diriger les musiciens.
Ils ont d’abord entamé un projet musical avec l’aide de l’ancien claviériste de la FFF et des Rita Mitsouko : Philippe Niel aka Félix.
Synonyms
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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