atavisme
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#86,434
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
atavisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Réapparition, chez le descendant, d’un ou plusieurs caractères qui avaient appartenu à un de ses ancêtres, sans se manifester dans les générations intermédiaires. Pronounced \a.ta.vism\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | atavisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ta.vism\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for atavisme is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ta.vism\. Corpus data places it at rank #86,434 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for atavisme in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is atavisme, spelled A-T-A-V-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Réapparition, chez le descendant, d’un ou plusieurs caractères qui avaient appartenu à un de ses ancêtres, sans se manifester dans les générations intermédiaires.
- 2Transmission héréditaire de certains traits physiques ou moraux.
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Frequency rank: #86,434 in French
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