confessionnalisme
French, noun/kɔ̃.fɛ.sjɔ.na.lism/
confessionnalisme is spelled C-O-N-F-E-S-S-I-O-N-N-A-L-I-S-M-E (17 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 155,929th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Confessionnalisme is a French masculine noun meaning “confessionalism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Attachement à une confession religieuse”.
What does confessionnalisme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineconfessionalism
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Attachement à une confession religieuse. 2. Système de gouvernement où le pouvoir politique, les postes ministériels, etc., se répartissent proportionnellement au poids des différentes confessions religieuses.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of confessionnalisme
- confessionnalismes plural
- confessionalisme
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce confessionnalisme?
- /kɔ̃.fɛ.sjɔ.na.lism/
- /kɔ̃.fɛ.sjɔ.na.lizm/
- /kɔ̃.fe.sjɔ.na.lism/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is confessionnalisme in French?
confessionnalisme appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).