agnosticisme

\a.ɡnɔ.sti.sism\

/\a.ɡnɔ.sti.sism\/ noun

The verdict

“agnosticisme” is uncommon French (frequency #73,686 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,686
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doctrine selon laquelle l’absolu ne peut être appréhendé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-agnosticisme · agnosticisme · French

agnosticisme · rank #73,686 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,686
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH agapes

Nearest frequency peer: agapes (-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 « agnosticisme »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « agnosticisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for agnosticisme
PropertyValue
Headwordagnosticisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ɡnɔ.sti.sism\
Letters12
Frequency rank#73,686
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « agnosticisme » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.agnosticismetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « agapes » (#73,685), « agrandissant » (#73,687), « aguerrie » (#73,688). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « agnosticisme » est au #73,686. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

agnosticisme is uncommon French at frequency #73,686 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ɡnɔ.sti.sism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Doctrine selon laquelle l’absolu ne peut être appréhendé.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for agnosticisme in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is agnosticisme, spelled A-G-N-O-S-T-I-C-I-S-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Doctrine selon laquelle l’absolu ne peut être appréhendé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how agnosticisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ses ouvrages […] contiennent nombre de pensées inspirées par ce vaillant optimisme matérialiste et orientées contre l’agnosticisme, le relativisme et d’autres variétés d’idéalisme.
  2. Euripide a laissé entendre dans son théâtre qu’il ne faut pas croire aux mensonges de la fable et trahit parfois dans ses vers un agnosticisme complet.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "agnosticisme"?
"agnosticisme" is spelled A-G-N-O-S-T-I-C-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ɡnɔ.sti.sism\.
What does "agnosticisme" mean?
As a noun, "agnosticisme" means: Doctrine selon laquelle l’absolu ne peut être appréhendé.
How do you pronounce "agnosticisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "agnosticisme" is \a.ɡnɔ.sti.sism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "agnosticisme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list