baptisme
French, noun/ba.tism/
baptisme is spelled B-A-P-T-I-S-M-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 72 million words in written French, the 267,323rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Baptisme is a French masculine noun meaning “baptism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Doctrine d’une confession chrétienne protestante, d’après laquelle le baptême ne doit être administré qu’à…”.
What does baptisme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebaptism
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Doctrine d’une confession chrétienne protestante, d’après laquelle le baptême ne doit être administré qu’à des adultes ou à des personnes en âge de raison et par immersion complète du néophyte. Le terme grec "baptizo" signifie "immersion".
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of baptisme
- baptismes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce baptisme?
- /ba.tism/
- /ba.tizm/
- \ba.tism\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is baptisme in French?
baptisme appears about once in every 72 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).