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tsarism

noun

tsarism is spelled T-S-A-R-I-S-M: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tsarism means “A system of government ruled by a tsar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tsarism is tsarisms.

How many letters and syllables are in tsarism?

Letters7: T-S-A-R-I-S-M
In writingabout once in every 30 million words; the 165,739th 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 tsarism?

Tsarism appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th 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).

Forms of tsarism

  • tsarisms plural
  • czarism
  • tzarism

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

What does tsarism mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A system of government ruled by a tsar.

  2. 2

    A supporter of monarchy ruled by a tsar.

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

Tsarism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense system of government:

LanguageWords
Frenchtsarisme
GermanZarismus
Portugueseczarismo, tzarismo
Spanishzarismo

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 tsarism come from?

From tsar + -ism. Piecewise doublet of Caesarism.

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

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