athéisme

\a.te.ism\

/\a.te.ism\/ noun

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The verdict

“athéisme” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,926. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,926
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Absence de croyance en un ou plusieurs dieux ou divinités, la doctrine de celui qui ne croit en aucun dieu ou aucune divinité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-atheisme · athéisme · French

athéisme · rank #20,926 · 12 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #20,926
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH athées

Nearest frequency peer: athées (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « athéisme »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « athéisme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

athéisme vs athlétisme
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for athéisme
PropertyValue
Headwordathéisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.te.ism\
Letters8
Frequency rank#20,926
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « athéisme »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).athéismese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « athées » (#20,925), « attribut » (#20,927), « assistés » (#20,924). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « athéisme » est au #20,926. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around athéisme (IPA \a.te.ism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,926 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Absence de croyance en un ou plusieurs dieux ou divinités, la doctrine de celui qui ne croit en aucun dieu ou aucune divinité.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for athéisme, with forms such as "ahtéisme", "atheisme", and "athhéisme". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "athlétisme", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is athéisme, spelled A-T-H-É-I-S-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Absence de croyance en un ou plusieurs dieux ou divinités, la doctrine de celui qui ne croit en aucun dieu ou aucune divinité.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Oui, je le soutiens, la superstition est plus injurieuse à Dieu que l’athéisme, […].
  2. Au contact de son mari, madame Leroi, libérée de toute croyance, dans son atavisme protestant de la liberté d’examen, s’était créé une sorte d’athéisme tranquille, une idée de devoir, de justice humaine et souveraine, qu’elle réalisait avec bravoure, par-dessus toutes les conventions sociales.

Synonyms

incroyancemécréancenon-croyance

Antonyms

croyancethéisme

This word in other languages

atheism(English)ateísmo(Español)Atheismus(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ahtéisme
  • atheisme
  • athhéisme
  • athiésme
  • athéimse
  • athéisem
  • athéismme
  • athéissme
  • athésime
  • atthéisme
  • atéhisme
  • tahéisme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of athéisme - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ahtéisme2atheisme1athhéisme1athiésme2athéimse2athéisem2athéismme1athéissme1
Edit distance from "athéisme"

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 "athéisme"?
"athéisme" is spelled A-T-H-É-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.te.ism\.
What does "athéisme" mean?
As a noun, "athéisme" means: Absence de croyance en un ou plusieurs dieux ou divinités, la doctrine de celui qui ne croit en aucun dieu ou aucune divinité.
What words are commonly confused with "athéisme"?
"athéisme" is commonly confused with "athlétisme". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "athéisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "athéisme" is \a.te.ism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "athéisme" come from?
"athéisme" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

attribut#20,927assistés#20,924apparues#20,920Bernardo#20,935

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

affectant12 variantsbranlette12 variantscanonique12 variantsélaborés12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list