Stravinsky

name

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The verdict

“Stravinsky” is uncommon French (frequency #53,008 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,008
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille russe.

Corpus desk

Index FR-stravinsky · Stravinsky · French

Stravinsky · rank #53,008 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #53,008
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH strangulation

Nearest frequency peer: strangulation (-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 « Stravinsky »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Stravinsky » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Stravinsky
PropertyValue
HeadwordStravinsky
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters10
Frequency rank#53,008
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Stravinsky » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Stravinskytombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « strangulation » (#53,007), « suaire » (#53,009), « stradivarius » (#53,006). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « Stravinsky » est au #53,008. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Stravinsky is uncommon French at frequency #53,008 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Stravinsky doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

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 Stravinsky, spelled S-T-R-A-V-I-N-S-K-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille russe.
  2. 2
    Igor Stravinsky.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. L’Histoire du soldat a été composée par Stravinsky en 1917 alors que la guerre faisait rage. Lambert Wilson est ici le récitant de cette œuvre grinçante.

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 "Stravinsky"?
"Stravinsky" is spelled S-T-R-A-V-I-N-S-K-Y.
What does "Stravinsky" mean?
As a proper noun, "Stravinsky" means: Nom de famille russe.
What language does "Stravinsky" come from?
"Stravinsky" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

stellaires#53,003supportais#53,014symbolisée#53,015saillantes#52,975

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list