chamanisme
\ʃa.ma.nism\
The verdict
“chamanisme” is uncommon French (frequency #59,879 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,879
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Système symbolique de médiation entre les humains et les esprits de la nature.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chamanisme · chamanisme · French
chamanisme · rank #59,879 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,879
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chancel
Nearest frequency peer: chancel (+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 « chamanisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cessaient
cessaient
40,126 corpus weight
- cetera
cetera
40,125 corpus weight
- CFD
CFD
40,124 corpus weight
- chamanisme
chamanisme
40,122 corpus weight
- chancel
chancel
40,121 corpus weight
- chandails
chandails
40,120 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chamanisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chamanisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ma.nism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chamanisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chamanisme is uncommon French at frequency #59,879 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.ma.nism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Système symbolique de médiation entre les humains et les esprits de la nature.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chamanisme, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chamanisme, spelled C-H-A-M-A-N-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Système symbolique de médiation entre les humains et les esprits de la nature.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chamanisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ake Hultkrantz présente le chamanisme comme un complexe culturel religio-magique et conclut : puisque le monde surnaturel est le monde de la religion, le chamanisme joue donc un rôle religieux et il n’est pas interdit de supposer que toutes les expériences extatiques à l’origine de renouveaux religieux remontent aux chamans des temps anciens.
— C’est qui, Pollock ? Excusez mon inculture. — Jackson Pollock était un peintre américain de l’après-guerre. Un expressionniste abstrait, un des chefs de file du mouvement, même. Il était très influencé par le chamanisme. Il est mort en 1956. »
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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