académisme
\a.ka.de.mism\
The verdict
“académisme” is uncommon French (frequency #72,040 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,040
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Observation absolue des traditions de l’école académique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-academisme · académisme · French
académisme · rank #72,040 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,040
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Abydos
Nearest frequency peer: Abydos (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « académisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- évaluateur
évaluateur
27,964 corpus weight
- Aarhus
Aarhus
27,963 corpus weight
- Abydos
Abydos
27,962 corpus weight
- académisme
académisme
27,961 corpus weight
- accidentées
accidentées
27,960 corpus weight
- accu
accu
27,959 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « académisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | académisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ka.de.mism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « académisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
académisme is uncommon French at frequency #72,040 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ka.de.mism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Observation absolue des traditions de l’école académique.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for académisme, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is académisme, spelled A-C-A-D-É-M-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Observation absolue des traditions de l’école académique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how académisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le côté expressif de cette sculpture heurtait violemment l’académisme qui s’essayait alors.
Étudiant au Conservatoire, je copiais le coup d’archet de mon maître et jouais comme lui. Il n’était pas question d’imaginer autre chose. Lorsque j’ai découvert la musique baroque, il m’a fallu tout réinventer. Cet espace de liberté était une bouffée d’air par rapport à l’académisme du Conservatoire.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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