darwinisme social
\daʁ.wi.nism sɔ.sjal\
The verdict
“darwinisme social” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Doctrine politique évolutionniste apparue au XIXᵉ siècle qui postule que la lutte pour la vie entre les hommes est l’état naturel des relations sociales.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | darwinisme social |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \daʁ.wi.nism sɔ.sjal\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “darwinisme social” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for darwinisme social is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \daʁ.wi.nism sɔ.sjal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Doctrine politique évolutionniste apparue au XIXᵉ siècle qui postule que la lutte pour la vie entre les hommes est l’état naturel des relations sociales.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for darwinisme social, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 darwinisme social, spelled D-A-R-W-I-N-I-S-M-E- -S-O-C-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Doctrine politique évolutionniste apparue au XIXᵉ siècle qui postule que la lutte pour la vie entre les hommes est l’état naturel des relations sociales.
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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.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-R-W-I-N-I-S-M-E- -S-O-C-I-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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