stradivarius
\stʁa.di.va.ʁjys\
The verdict
“stradivarius” is uncommon French (frequency #53,006 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,006
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument à cordes frottées (le plus souvent un violon) fabriqué par Antonio Stradivari (ou un membre de sa famille).
Corpus desk
Index FR-stradivarius · stradivarius · French
stradivarius · rank #53,006 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,006
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stoppez
Nearest frequency peer: stoppez (-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 « stradivarius »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stellaires
stellaires
46,998 corpus weight
- stitch
stitch
46,997 corpus weight
- stoppez
stoppez
46,996 corpus weight
- stradivarius
stradivarius
46,995 corpus weight
- strangulati…
strangulation
46,994 corpus weight
- Stravinsky
Stravinsky
46,993 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stradivarius » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stradivarius |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stʁa.di.va.ʁjys\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #53,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stradivarius » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stradivarius is uncommon French at frequency #53,006 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stʁa.di.va.ʁjys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for stradivarius in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 stradivarius, spelled S-T-R-A-D-I-V-A-R-I-U-S.
Definition
- 1Instrument à cordes frottées (le plus souvent un violon) fabriqué par Antonio Stradivari (ou un membre de sa famille).
- 2Symbole de l'excellence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stradivarius appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre-temps, le stradivarius s'est imposé comme une référence.
Depuis septembre 2021, Anastasia Kobekina joue avec un stradivarius prêté par une fondation suisse, Habisreutinger, sise à Saint-Gall. Un violoncelle de 1698, le « De Kermadec Bläss », à qui son propriétaire a donné le nom de son chien préféré, un bouvier d’Appenzell russel terrier.
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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