ascétisme
\a.se.tism\
The verdict
“ascétisme” is uncommon French (frequency #73,725 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,725
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de vie des ascètes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ascetisme · ascétisme · French
ascétisme · rank #73,725 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,725
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assemblant
Nearest frequency peer: assemblant (+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 « ascétisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arpentant
arpentant
26,280 corpus weight
- arquebusiers
arquebusiers
26,279 corpus weight
- ascétisme
ascétisme
26,276 corpus weight
- assemblant
assemblant
26,275 corpus weight
- assignats
assignats
26,274 corpus weight
- assommée
assommée
26,273 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ascétisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ascétisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.se.tism\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ascétisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ascétisme is uncommon French at frequency #73,725 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.se.tism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre de vie des ascètes.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ascétisme in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ascétisme, spelled A-S-C-É-T-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Genre de vie des ascètes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ascétisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Très souvent on a fait de l’ascétisme oriental la manifestation la plus remarquable du pessimisme.
L’ascétisme de Pascal n’est pas la conséquence du christianisme de Pascal. Il en est la cause première.
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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