# populism

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #28,334

## Definitions
1. A political doctrine or philosophy that proposes that the rights and powers of ordinary people are exploited by a privileged elite, and supports their struggle to overcome this.
2. The practice of appealing to the interests of the common people.

## Etymology
From Latin populus + -ism.

## Easily confused with
- **populist** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/populism-vs-populist)

## Common misspellings (12)
`oppulism`, `popluism`, `poppulism`, `popuilsm`, `populims`, `populismm`, `populissm`, `popullism`, `populsim`, `pouplism`, `ppopulism`, `ppoulism`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/populism