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reformism

noun

reformism is a noun meaning “Any of several movements that promote reform” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-F-O-R-M-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of reformism is reformisms.

What does reformism mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any of several movements that promote reform

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of reformism

  • reformisms plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is reformism?

Reformism appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Reformism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Any of several movements that promote reform:

LanguageWords
Frenchréformisme
Spanishreformismo

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does reformism come from?

From reform + -ism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).