complotisme
\kɔ̃.plɔ.tism\
The verdict
“complotisme” is uncommon French (frequency #55,834 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,834
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conviction qu’une théorie du complot est à l’œuvre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-complotisme · complotisme · French
complotisme · rank #55,834 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,834
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH comploter
Nearest frequency peer: comploter (-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 « complotisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- commérages
commérages
44,170 corpus weight
- compet
compet
44,169 corpus weight
- comploter
comploter
44,168 corpus weight
- complotisme
complotisme
44,167 corpus weight
- compulsifs
compulsifs
44,166 corpus weight
- compulsive
compulsive
44,165 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « complotisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | complotisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.plɔ.tism\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « complotisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
complotisme is uncommon French at frequency #55,834 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.plɔ.tism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Conviction qu’une théorie du complot est à l’œuvre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for complotisme, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is complotisme, spelled C-O-M-P-L-O-T-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Conviction qu’une théorie du complot est à l’œuvre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how complotisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Désir sous-tendu par une sourde méfiance à l’égard du discours « des institutions », qui montre que les médias « mainstream », sur certains sujets, peuvent aussi flirter avec le complotisme.
Depuis une semaine, le nom de McKinsey s’est pourtant immiscé dans la campagne présidentielle : tous les adversaires d’Emmanuel Macron s’en sont emparés pour dénoncer « un scandale », quand ses soutiens, eux, ont crié au « complotisme » sans convaincre personne.
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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