brutalisme
\bʁy.ta.lism\
The verdict
“brutalisme” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouvement littéraire faisant une description brutale de la réalité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brutalisme · brutalisme · French
brutalisme · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brutalisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁy.ta.lism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
brutalisme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁy.ta.lism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mouvement littéraire faisant une description brutale de la réalité.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for brutalisme, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is brutalisme, spelled B-R-U-T-A-L-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Mouvement littéraire faisant une description brutale de la réalité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brutalisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La brutalité dans son esprit est un mode de persuasion : le réalisme décrit, le brutalisme doit convaincre.
On y discernait déjà, outre les éléments du réalisme de 1857, quelques tendances naturalistes : une note brutale (le brutalisme, raillaient les ennemis de « la Rue »), le respect des sciences positives, l’antimilitarisme et les revendications sociales.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.