cléricalisme
\kle.ʁi.ka.lism\
The verdict
“cléricalisme” is uncommon French (frequency #84,641 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,641
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Opinion de ceux qui sont partisans d’une prédominance politique du clergé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clericalisme · cléricalisme · French
cléricalisme · rank #84,641 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,641
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cléa
Nearest frequency peer: Cléa (-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 « cléricalisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cinémascope
cinémascope
15,364 corpus weight
- claustropho…
claustrophobie
15,363 corpus weight
- Cléa
Cléa
15,361 corpus weight
- cléricalisme
cléricalisme
15,360 corpus weight
- cognitivo
cognitivo
15,358 corpus weight
- cois
cois
15,357 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cléricalisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cléricalisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kle.ʁi.ka.lism\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #84,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cléricalisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cléricalisme is uncommon French at frequency #84,641 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kle.ʁi.ka.lism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Opinion de ceux qui sont partisans d’une prédominance politique du clergé.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cléricalisme, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 cléricalisme, spelled C-L-É-R-I-C-A-L-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Opinion de ceux qui sont partisans d’une prédominance politique du clergé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cléricalisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’armature de la nouvelle majorité, c’était la résistance à la poussée démocratique, c’était, sous roche, le cléricalisme.
Gallifet était aussi éloigné du cléricalisme que du nationalisme. Des innombrables coups de boutoir qu’il distribuait à la ronde avec un esprit endiablé il réservait une bonne part aux cagots et aux patriotards.
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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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