organiste

\ɔʁ.ɡa.nist\

/\ɔʁ.ɡa.nist\/ noun

The verdict

“organiste” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,508. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#32,508
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui joue de l’orgue.

Corpus desk

Index FR-organiste · organiste · French

organiste · rank #32,508 · 13 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #32,508
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH ors

Nearest frequency peer: ors (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « organiste »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « organiste » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

organiste vs organise
89% similar
organiste vs organisa
78% similar
organiste vs organisme
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for organiste
PropertyValue
Headwordorganiste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔʁ.ɡa.nist\
Letters9
Frequency rank#32,508
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « organiste »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.organistese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « ors » (#32,509), « ops » (#32,506), « osons » (#32,510). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « organiste » est au #32,508. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around organiste (IPA \ɔʁ.ɡa.nist\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,508 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for organiste, with forms such as "ograniste", "oragniste", and "orgainste". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "organise", "organisa", "organisme", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is organiste, spelled O-R-G-A-N-I-S-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne qui joue de l’orgue.
  2. 2
    Désigne des espèces d’oiseaux des genres Euphonia et Chlorophonia, de la famille des Fringillidae.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il n’y a donc pas moyen d’obtenir qu’on expulse l’organiste, qu’on balaie le maître de chapelle et les professeurs de chant de la maîtrise, qu’on refoule chez les liquoristes les voix de rogomme des gros chantres ?
  2. La très charmante fille de l’organiste de la cathédrale du Mans, Mˡˡᵉ Kahn, fut notre maîtresse de piano.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ograniste
  • oragniste
  • orgainste
  • organiset
  • organisste
  • organistte
  • organitse
  • organniste
  • organsite
  • orgganiste
  • orgnaiste
  • orrganiste
  • roganiste

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of organiste - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ograniste2oragniste2orgainste2organiset2organisste1organistte1organitse2organniste1
Edit distance from "organiste"

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 "organiste"?
"organiste" is spelled O-R-G-A-N-I-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔʁ.ɡa.nist\.
What does "organiste" mean?
As a noun, "organiste" means: Personne qui joue de l’orgue.
What words are commonly confused with "organiste"?
"organiste" is commonly confused with "organise", "organisa", "organisme". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "organiste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "organiste" is \ɔʁ.ɡa.nist\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "organiste" come from?
"organiste" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list