épéiste

\e.pe.ist\

/\e.pe.ist\/ noun

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for épéiste
PropertyValue
Headwordépéiste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.pe.ist\
Letters7
Frequency rank#81,720
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « épéiste » en français

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « épanouies » (#81,719), « équatoriales » (#81,721), « émigrant » (#81,718). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « épéiste » est au #81,720. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Escrimeur à l’épée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "épéiste"?
"épéiste" is spelled É-P-É-I-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.pe.ist\.
What does "épéiste" mean?
As a noun, "épéiste" means: Escrimeur à l’épée.
How do you pronounce "épéiste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "épéiste" is \e.pe.ist\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "épéiste" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list