centrisme
\sɑ̃.tʁism\
The verdict
“centrisme” is uncommon French (frequency #76,410 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,410
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Courant politique se situant à mi-chemin entre la droite et la gauche, entre le conservatisme et le progressisme.
| 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) |
Where “centrisme” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
centrisme is uncommon French at frequency #76,410 among 257,141 “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.
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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Using “centrisme”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-E-N-T-R-I-S-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.