criticism
The verdict
“criticism” is uncommon French (frequency #98,925 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,925
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Critique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-criticism · criticism · French
criticism · rank #98,925 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,925
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH criticité
Nearest frequency peer: criticité (+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 « criticism »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- creeper
creeper
1,078 corpus weight
- criticism
criticism
1,076 corpus weight
- criticité
criticité
1,075 corpus weight
- cryptologie
cryptologie
1,073 corpus weight
- crèvecœur
crèvecœur
1,072 corpus weight
- crétoise
crétoise
1,071 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « criticism » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | criticism |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « criticism » en français
Rare enough to double-check
criticism is uncommon French at frequency #98,925 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
criticism doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is criticism, spelled C-R-I-T-I-C-I-S-M.
Definition
- 1Critique.
- 2Reproche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how criticism appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
literary criticism, social criticism
Why do you only have criticisms about everything that I do?
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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