calvinisme
\kal.vi.nism\
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
- cachons
cachons
38,636 corpus weight
- calmés
calmés
38,634 corpus weight
- calvinisme
calvinisme
38,633 corpus weight
- cambrousse
cambrousse
38,632 corpus weight
- Cancale
Cancale
38,631 corpus weight
- canneberge
canneberge
38,630 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calvinisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calvinisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kal.vi.nism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calvinisme » en français
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
- 1Doctrine de Jean Calvin.
- 2Église réformée qui suit cette doctrine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calvinisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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