pianist

Other forms of pianist

plural

pianists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pianist

What does pianist mean?

pianist means "a person who plays the piano".

How many syllables are in pianist?

pianist has 3 syllables: pi-an-ist. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /piˈænəst/.

What is another word for pianist?

Close synonyms include piano player. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pianist a common word?

pianist is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.