percussionnistes
\pɛʁ.ky.sjɔ.nist\
The verdict
“percussionnistes” is uncommon French (frequency #80,493 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,493
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de percussionniste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-percussionnistes · percussionnistes · French
percussionnistes · rank #80,493 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,493
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PepsiCo
Nearest frequency peer: PepsiCo (-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 « percussionnistes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pepito
pepito
19,510 corpus weight
- PepsiCo
PepsiCo
19,509 corpus weight
- percussionn…
percussionnistes
19,508 corpus weight
- percutantes
percutantes
19,507 corpus weight
- perfectionn…
perfectionnées
19,506 corpus weight
- persistez
persistez
19,505 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « percussionnistes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percussionnistes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.ky.sjɔ.nist\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #80,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « percussionnistes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
percussionnistes is uncommon French at frequency #80,493 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.ky.sjɔ.nist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de percussionniste.".
percussionnistes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 percussionnistes, spelled P-E-R-C-U-S-S-I-O-N-N-I-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de percussionniste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how percussionnistes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’est pas rare non plus que deux percussionnistes doivent partager une seule partition qui comporte deux parties bien distinctes.
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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