épéiste
\e.pe.ist\
The verdict
“épéiste” is uncommon French (frequency #81,720 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,720
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Escrimeur à l’épée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epeiste · épéiste · French
épéiste · rank #81,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,720
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épanouies
Nearest frequency peer: épanouies (-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 « épéiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- émigrant
émigrant
18,283 corpus weight
- épanouies
épanouies
18,282 corpus weight
- épéiste
épéiste
18,281 corpus weight
- équatoriales
équatoriales
18,280 corpus weight
- équilatéral
équilatéral
18,279 corpus weight
- éraflures
éraflures
18,278 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « épéiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épéiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pe.ist\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « épéiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
épéiste is uncommon French at frequency #81,720 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.pe.ist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Escrimeur à l’épée.".
épéiste doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 épéiste, spelled É-P-É-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Escrimeur à l’épée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how épéiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Fédération française d’escrime a annoncé vendredi les quatre épéistes sélectionnés pour les prochains Championnats d’Europe à Leipzig (Allemagne) du 16 au 22 juillet et les Mondiaux de Paris, du 4 au 13 novembre.
Deux épéistes se sont livrés à un duel devant un superbe fond de pleine lune.
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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