catholicisme
\ka.tɔ.li.sism\
The verdict
“catholicisme” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,653. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,653
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des dogmes, institutions et préceptes de l’Église catholique romaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catholicisme · catholicisme · French
catholicisme · rank #10,653 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,653
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH censés
Nearest frequency peer: censés (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « catholicisme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
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cancers
89,351 corpus weight
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cantine
89,350 corpus weight
- catholicisme
catholicisme
89,348 corpus weight
- censés
censés
89,347 corpus weight
- chaudière
chaudière
89,346 corpus weight
- chauffeurs
chauffeurs
89,345 corpus weight
What this shows « catholicisme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catholicisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.tɔ.li.sism\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #10,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « catholicisme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around catholicisme (IPA \ka.tɔ.li.sism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,653 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ensemble des dogmes, institutions et préceptes de l’Église catholique romaine.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for catholicisme, with forms such as "actholicisme", "cahtolicisme", and "cathholicisme". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is catholicisme, spelled C-A-T-H-O-L-I-C-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des dogmes, institutions et préceptes de l’Église catholique romaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how catholicisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si leur foi eût été moins superstitieuse et moins puérile, si leurs doctrines eussent été moins imperméables à la raison, ce catholicisme éternel, je verrais dans les hommes que je viens de citer les maîtres les plus dignes de toucher avec des mains pieuses l’âme délicate de la jeunesse.
A. Comte avait fabriqué une caricature du catholicisme, dans laquelle il n’avait conservé que la défroque administrative, policière et hiérarchique de cette Église […]
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- actholicisme
- cahtolicisme
- cathholicisme
- cathloicisme
- cathoilcisme
- catholciisme
- catholiccisme
- catholicimse
- catholicisem
- catholicismme
- catholicissme
- catholicsime
- catholiicsme
- cathollicisme
- catohlicisme
- cattholicisme
- ccatholicisme
- ctaholicisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of catholicisme - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).