calvinisme

\kal.vi.nism\

/\kal.vi.nism\/ noun

The verdict

“calvinisme” is uncommon French (frequency #61,368 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,368
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doctrine de Jean Calvin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-calvinisme · calvinisme · French

calvinisme · rank #61,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #61,368
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH calmés

Nearest frequency peer: calmés (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « calvinisme »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calvinisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for calvinisme
PropertyValue
Headwordcalvinisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kal.vi.nism\
Letters10
Frequency rank#61,368
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « calvinisme » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.calvinismetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « calmés » (#61,367), « cambrousse » (#61,369), « Cancale » (#61,370). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « calvinisme » est au #61,368. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

calvinisme is uncommon French at frequency #61,368 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kal.vi.nism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for calvinisme, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is calvinisme, spelled C-A-L-V-I-N-I-S-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Doctrine de Jean Calvin.
  2. 2
    Église réformée qui suit cette doctrine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Cette porte, assez souvent répétée dans les petites églises du moyen âge que le hasard a préservées des ravages du calvinisme, est couronnée par un triglyphe au-dessus duquel s’élève une Vierge sculptée tenant l’Enfant Jésus.
  2. Ils se sentirent au contraire, fort peu d’estime pour les quarante ou cinquante systèmes qui n’étaient bons, comme le jansénisme ou le calvinisme, qu’à troubler l’obéissance et la soumission des esprits.

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); 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 "calvinisme"?
"calvinisme" is spelled C-A-L-V-I-N-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kal.vi.nism\.
What does "calvinisme" mean?
As a noun, "calvinisme" means: Doctrine de Jean Calvin.
How do you pronounce "calvinisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "calvinisme" is \kal.vi.nism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list