percussionniste
\pɛʁ.ky.sjɔ.nist\
The verdict
“percussionniste” is uncommon French (frequency #52,895 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,895
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Musicien instrumentiste jouant une ou des percussions.
Corpus desk
Index FR-percussionniste · percussionniste · French
percussionniste · rank #52,895 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,895
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pavillonnaire
Nearest frequency peer: pavillonnaire (-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 « percussionniste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- patriciens
patriciens
47,108 corpus weight
- pavillonnai…
pavillonnaire
47,107 corpus weight
- percussionn…
percussionniste
47,106 corpus weight
- perturbées
perturbées
47,105 corpus weight
- physical
physical
47,104 corpus weight
- phénotype
phénotype
47,103 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « percussionniste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percussionniste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.ky.sjɔ.nist\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #52,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « percussionniste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
percussionniste is uncommon French at frequency #52,895 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.ky.sjɔ.nist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Musicien instrumentiste jouant une ou des percussions.".
Zero misspellings are on record for percussionniste in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 percussionniste, spelled P-E-R-C-U-S-S-I-O-N-N-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Musicien instrumentiste jouant une ou des percussions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how percussionniste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le duo est composé de Cécile Carcauzon, chanteuse et percussionniste, qui a joué dans différentes formations de musiques brésiliennes et cubaines et de Gilles Lozach, chanteur, guitariste, qui a exploré des répertoires hispanique, africain et cubain.
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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