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Slavism

UK /ˈslɑːvɪzm/noun

Slavism is spelled S-L-A-V-I-S-M: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Slavism means “A linguistic feature of one or more Slavic languages, especially a Slavic idiom or phrasing that appears in a non-Slavic language” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Slavism is Slavisms.

How many letters and syllables are in Slavism?

Letters7: S-L-A-V-I-S-M
In writingabout once in every 49 million words; the 217,360th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is Slavism?

Slavism appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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).

How do you pronounce Slavism?

  • UK /ˈslɑːvɪzm/

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

Forms of Slavism

  • Slavisms plural
  • Sclavism

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

What does Slavism mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A linguistic feature of one or more Slavic languages, especially a Slavic idiom or phrasing that appears in a non-Slavic language.

  2. 2

    An attitude, custom, or other feature that is characteristically Slavic.

  3. 3

    Esteem for and emulation of Slavic culture and politics.

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

Slavism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense a Slavic idiom or phrase:

LanguageWords
Frenchslavisme
GermanSlawismus
Portugueseeslavismo
Spanisheslavismo

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 Slavism come from?

From Slav + -ism.

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

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