clanisme
\kla.nism\
The verdict
“clanisme” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisation sociale basée sur les clans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clanisme · clanisme · French
clanisme · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clanisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kla.nism\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clanisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clanisme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kla.nism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Organisation sociale basée sur les clans.".
clanisme doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is clanisme, spelled C-L-A-N-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Organisation sociale basée sur les clans.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clanisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le clanisme est une vieille histoire en Corse.
Ainsi, l’aspect tribal de ce phénomène n’est qu’un exemple des circonstances particulières sous lesquelles des structures historiques fondées sur la parenté et le clanisme peuvent se fondre dans la fragmentation ethnique et politique.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.