darwinien
\daʁ.wi.njɛ̃\
The verdict
“darwinien” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au darwinisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-darwinien · darwinien · French
darwinien · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | darwinien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \daʁ.wi.njɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « darwinien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
darwinien is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \daʁ.wi.njɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au darwinisme.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for darwinien, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is darwinien, spelled D-A-R-W-I-N-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif au darwinisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how darwinien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’hypothèse darwinienne du transformisme et de la pangenèse.
On peut se présenter comme évolutionniste darwinien sans réaliser que le darwinisme nous révèle un monde implacable.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.