psalmiste
\psal.mist\
The verdict
“psalmiste” is uncommon French (frequency #87,987 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,987
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Auteur des Psaumes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-psalmiste · psalmiste · French
psalmiste · rank #87,987 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,987
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH présenterais
Nearest frequency peer: présenterais (-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 « psalmiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prytanée
prytanée
12,017 corpus weight
- présenterais
présenterais
12,015 corpus weight
- psalmiste
psalmiste
12,014 corpus weight
- psalmodie
psalmodie
12,013 corpus weight
- pubescent
pubescent
12,012 corpus weight
- punchy
punchy
12,011 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « psalmiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psalmiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \psal.mist\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « psalmiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
psalmiste is uncommon French at frequency #87,987 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \psal.mist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Auteur des Psaumes.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for psalmiste, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is psalmiste, spelled P-S-A-L-M-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Auteur des Psaumes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how psalmiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle était inexaucée ; et enveloppée d’obscurités et de ténèbres, pleine d’incertitude et d’angoisse, ne pouvant trouver la raison qui la rendait indigne de toutes les miséricordes divines, elle élevait tout haut la plainte du Psalmiste : « Mon Dieu ! vous avez détourné de moi votre visage, et je suis tombée dans le trouble. »
Lire les Psaumes, c'est nous décentrer de nos émotions pour entrer en résonance avec celles du psalmiste, pas toujours identiques aux nôtres.
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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