librettiste
\li.bʁe.tist\
The verdict
“librettiste” is uncommon French (frequency #92,934 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,934
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Auteur d’un libretto, d’un livret, c’est-à-dire le texte d’une œuvre lyrique, comme un opéra, une cantate, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-librettiste · librettiste · French
librettiste · rank #92,934 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,934
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH leverage
Nearest frequency peer: leverage (-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 « librettiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- leucine
leucine
7,069 corpus weight
- leverage
leverage
7,068 corpus weight
- librettiste
librettiste
7,067 corpus weight
- libérerait
libérerait
7,066 corpus weight
- lieber
lieber
7,065 corpus weight
- lik
lik
7,064 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « librettiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | librettiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.bʁe.tist\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #92,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « librettiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
librettiste is uncommon French at frequency #92,934 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.bʁe.tist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Auteur d’un libretto, d’un livret, c’est-à-dire le texte d’une œuvre lyrique, comme un opéra, une cantate, etc.".
librettiste has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is librettiste, spelled L-I-B-R-E-T-T-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Auteur d’un libretto, d’un livret, c’est-à-dire le texte d’une œuvre lyrique, comme un opéra, une cantate, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how librettiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une raison temporelle, liée au genre musical, peut expliquer la suppression, par le librettiste, des neuf personnages.
Mozart était très exigeant pour ses livrets et il avait, autant qu’il le pouvait, des liens très étroits avec ses librettistes, afin que les textes fussent mis au point d’une façon qui le satisfit
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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