crétinisme
\kʁe.ti.nism\
The verdict
“crétinisme” is uncommon French (frequency #94,668 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,668
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arriération mentale, intellectuelle et parfois physique due à une insuffisance thyroïdienne congénitale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cretinisme · crétinisme · French
crétinisme · rank #94,668 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,668
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crépitent
Nearest frequency peer: crépitent (-2 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 « crétinisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crossovers
crossovers
5,338 corpus weight
- cryptos
cryptos
5,336 corpus weight
- crépitent
crépitent
5,335 corpus weight
- crétinisme
crétinisme
5,333 corpus weight
- cumulonimbus
cumulonimbus
5,330 corpus weight
- Cupra
Cupra
5,329 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crétinisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crétinisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁe.ti.nism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #94,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crétinisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crétinisme is uncommon French at frequency #94,668 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁe.ti.nism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for crétinisme, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is crétinisme, spelled C-R-É-T-I-N-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Arriération mentale, intellectuelle et parfois physique due à une insuffisance thyroïdienne congénitale.
- 2Stupidité, imbécillité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crétinisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au milieu du XIXᵉ siècle, on se mit à rechercher scientifiquement pourquoi le crétinisme affectait certaines vallées alpines.
Ailleurs des enfants en haillons, atteints de malformations diverses ou donnant des signes évidents de crétinisme, jouaient à se rouler parterre.
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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