cynisme
\si.nism\
The verdict
“cynisme” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,587. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,587
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Philosophie cynique, doctrine matérialiste et anticonformiste des philosophes cyniques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cynisme · cynisme · French
cynisme · rank #16,587 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,587
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coudes
Nearest frequency peer: coudes (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cynisme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contrées
contrées
83,417 corpus weight
- coques
coques
83,416 corpus weight
- coudes
coudes
83,415 corpus weight
- cynisme
cynisme
83,414 corpus weight
- dana
dana
83,413 corpus weight
- Danube
Danube
83,412 corpus weight
What this shows « cynisme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cynisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.nism\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cynisme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cynisme (IPA \si.nism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,587 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cynisme, with forms such as "ccynisme", "cnyisme", and "cyinsme". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cynique", "civisme", "cyclisme", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cynisme, spelled C-Y-N-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Philosophie cynique, doctrine matérialiste et anticonformiste des philosophes cyniques.
- 2Affectation d’impudence, mépris des convenances et de la morale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cynisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cynisme fit de grands progrès dans la Grèce.
Mépris des hommes encore, le cynisme qui le fait parler de « succès prodigieux » quand on est en pleine catastrophe.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccynisme
- cnyisme
- cyinsme
- cynimse
- cynisem
- cynismme
- cynissme
- cynnisme
- cynsime
- cyynisme
- ycnisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cynisme - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).