autisme
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,996
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
autisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Trouble, particularité neurologique caractérisée par des difficultés de communication, ainsi que des comportements à caractère restreint et répétitif. Pronounced \o.tism\. Often confused with autiste and autistes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.tism\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for autisme is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.tism\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,996 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for autisme, with forms such as "atuisme", "auitsme", and "autimse". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "autiste", "autistes", "attise", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 autisme, spelled A-U-T-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Trouble, particularité neurologique caractérisée par des difficultés de communication, ainsi que des comportements à caractère restreint et répétitif.
- 2Autisme avec déficience intellectuelle et/ou retard du langage. C’est souvent ce sens qui est utilisé par le grand public ; il correspond à ce que l’on appelait avant « l’autisme de Kanner » ou « autisme infantile » (termes désuets), mais n’est qu’un des aspects du spectre de l’autisme.
- 3Tout comportement de repli sur soi.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atuisme,auitsme,autimse,autisem,autismme,autissme,autsime,auttisme,uatisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for autisme
Misspelling Variants of "autisme"
Frequency rank: #10,996 in French
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