trapéziste
\tʁa.pe.zist\
The verdict
“trapéziste” is uncommon French (frequency #97,500 among 164,488 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,500
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gymnaste ou acrobate qui fait des acrobaties au trapèze.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trapeziste · trapéziste · French
trapéziste · rank #97,500 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,500
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 164,488
- PHOTO-FINISH transsubstant…
Nearest frequency peer: transsubstantiation (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “trapéziste”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- tq
tq
2,505 corpus weight
- transsubsta…
transsubstantiation
2,502 corpus weight
- trapéziste
trapéziste
2,501 corpus weight
- travails
travails
2,500 corpus weight
- traçait
traçait
2,499 corpus weight
- trempait
trempait
2,498 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “trapéziste” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trapéziste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.pe.zist\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trapéziste” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
trapéziste is uncommon French at frequency #97,500 among 164,488 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁa.pe.zist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gymnaste ou acrobate qui fait des acrobaties au trapèze.".
Zero misspellings are on record for trapéziste in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is trapéziste, spelled T-R-A-P-É-Z-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Gymnaste ou acrobate qui fait des acrobaties au trapèze.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how trapéziste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, comme j’atteignais presque mes cinquante ans, une jeune fille farouche, aux très longs cheveux noirs, se joignit à nous : c’était Ismaëla, la nouvelle trapéziste, la première que j’aie accepté d’engager après la mort de ma mère, après un deuil de près de trente ans.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "trapéziste", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.