cafardisme
\ka.faʁ.dism\
The verdict
“cafardisme” 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) - Grande hypocrisie, en particulier dans le domaine religieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cafardisme · cafardisme · French
cafardisme · 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 "C" 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 | cafardisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.faʁ.dism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cafardisme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.faʁ.dism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grande hypocrisie, en particulier dans le domaine religieux.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cafardisme in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cafardisme, spelled C-A-F-A-R-D-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Grande hypocrisie, en particulier dans le domaine religieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cafardisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que le cafardisme et la dureté des caractère soient considérés comme des défauts qui donnent aussi bien que l’immoralité, l’exclusion de ce bel état (la prêtrise).
Gouvernement, administrations publiques, évêché, fonctionnaires, moines et curés, continuent à s’entendre à merveille pour le plus grand bien de la Congrégation, en particulier, et du cafardisme en général.
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.