# Zionism

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈzaɪəˌnɪzəm/ · frequency rank #25,645

## Definitions
1. Jewish nationalism, the movement which supported first the establishment of a Jewish homeland and now supports the continuation of Israel as a Jewish state.
2. A religion practiced throughout sub-Saharan Africa, most popular in Swaziland, consisting of a mixture of Protestantism and animism.
3. A Christian eschatological concept that links the migration of Jews to Palestine with apocalyptic events.

## Etymology
From Zion + -ism, calqued in analogy to German Zionismus, coined by Nathan Birnbaum in 1890.

## Easily confused with
- **Zionist** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/zionism-vs-zionist)

## Common misspellings (10)
`izonism`, `zinoism`, `zioinsm`, `zionims`, `zionismm`, `zionissm`, `zionnism`, `zionsim`, `zoinism`, `zzionism`

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