centrisme
\sɑ̃.tʁism\
The verdict
“centrisme” is uncommon French (frequency #76,410 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,410
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Courant politique se situant à mi-chemin entre la droite et la gauche, entre le conservatisme et le progressisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-centrisme · centrisme · French
centrisme · rank #76,410 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,410
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cement
Nearest frequency peer: cement (-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 « centrisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cataclysmes
cataclysmes
23,594 corpus weight
- catins
catins
23,593 corpus weight
- cement
cement
23,592 corpus weight
- centrisme
centrisme
23,591 corpus weight
- certif
certif
23,590 corpus weight
- certificate
certificate
23,589 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « centrisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | centrisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.tʁism\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « centrisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
centrisme is uncommon French at frequency #76,410 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.tʁism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for centrisme in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is centrisme, spelled C-E-N-T-R-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Courant politique se situant à mi-chemin entre la droite et la gauche, entre le conservatisme et le progressisme.
- 2Biais systémique où un groupe ou un point de vue particulier est érigé en norme universelle, servant à exclure, subordonner ou dominer les « autres ». Val Plumwood y voit un mécanisme central de la logique de domination (masculine, humaine, occidentale...) qui légitime l’exploitation des non humains, des femmes, des peuples colonisés, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how centrisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On peut le constater, la vie politique française pose périodiquement la question de la possibilité et de la légitimité du centrisme.
Mais ce centrisme ainsi défini se veut ouvert, hospitalier, accueillant, se conçoit lui-même comme potentiellement élargi à des tendances proches.
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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