communism
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "communism", 9-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "communism" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "communism" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
communism is aEnglishnoun. It means: Any far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively, especially by seizing it through revolution. Pronounced [ˈkɒm.ju.nɪ.zm̩]. It ranks #9,586 in English word frequency. Often confused with community and communist.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | communism |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɒm.ju.nɪ.zm̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for communism is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkɒm.ju.nɪ.zm̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,586 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for communism, with forms such as "ccommunism", "cmomunism", and "commnuism". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "community", "communist", "communion", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Old Latin comoinis Latin commūnis Old French comun French commun Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is communism, spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-I-S-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Any far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively, especially by seizing it through revolution.
- 2Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.
- 3The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist.
- 4Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc.
- 5Readiness to share scientific findings (the first of the Mertonian norms).
- 6communality, sharedness.
Etymology
Etymology tree Old Latin comoinis Latin commūnis Old French comun French commun Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. Latin -ismusbor. French -isme French communismebor. English communism A borrowing from French communisme, which was formed from commun (“common”) (from Latin commūnis) and the suffix -isme (“-ism”). By surface analysis, commune + -ism.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccommunism,cmomunism,commnuism,commuinsm,communims,communismm,communissm,communnism,communsim,comumnism,comunism,ocmmunism
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for communism
Misspelling Variants of "communism"
Frequency rank: #9,586 in English
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