instrumentiste
\ɛ̃.stʁy.mɑ̃.tist\
The verdict
“instrumentiste” is uncommon French (frequency #52,756 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,756
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle qui joue d’un instrument de musique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-instrumentiste · instrumentiste · French
instrumentiste · rank #52,756 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,756
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insista
Nearest frequency peer: insista (-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 « instrumentiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inoccupé
inoccupé
47,247 corpus weight
- insista
insista
47,246 corpus weight
- instrumenti…
instrumentiste
47,245 corpus weight
- interceptés
interceptés
47,244 corpus weight
- internée
internée
47,243 corpus weight
- interprofes…
interprofessionnelle
47,242 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « instrumentiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | instrumentiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.stʁy.mɑ̃.tist\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #52,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « instrumentiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
instrumentiste is uncommon French at frequency #52,756 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.stʁy.mɑ̃.tist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for instrumentiste in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 instrumentiste, spelled I-N-S-T-R-U-M-E-N-T-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle qui joue d’un instrument de musique.
- 2Assistant, assistante médical qui gère les outils de chirurgie.
- 3Technicien, technicienne spécialiste en régulation de procédés industriels et instrumentation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how instrumentiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Et comme instrumentiste, continua-t-il, comme instrumentiste, de quel instrument jouez-vous ? — De tous à peu près, depuis le rebec jusqu’au clavecin, depuis la viole d’amour jusqu’au théorbe ; mais l’instrument dont je me suis particulièrement occupé, c’est le violon.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "instrumentiste", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).