flûtiste
\fly.tist\
The verdict
“flûtiste” is uncommon French (frequency #63,762 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,762
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Artiste qui joue de la flûte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flutiste · flûtiste · French
flûtiste · rank #63,762 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,762
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flottaient
Nearest frequency peer: flottaient (-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 « flûtiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flamboyantes
flamboyantes
36,242 corpus weight
- floquet
floquet
36,241 corpus weight
- flottaient
flottaient
36,240 corpus weight
- flûtiste
flûtiste
36,239 corpus weight
- fonctionner…
fonctionneront
36,238 corpus weight
- fore
fore
36,236 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flûtiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flûtiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fly.tist\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flûtiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flûtiste is uncommon French at frequency #63,762 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fly.tist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Artiste qui joue de la flûte.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for flûtiste, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is flûtiste, spelled F-L-Û-T-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Artiste qui joue de la flûte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how flûtiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand le flûtiste arrive au bout du chemin et que Lucia s’arrête, les applaudissements sont incontrôlables.
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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