dualisme
\dɥa.lism\
The verdict
“dualisme” is uncommon French (frequency #51,422 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,422
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Système qui suppose la coexistence, dans l’univers, dans l’homme ou dans les choses, de deux principes, de deux parties, de deux éléments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dualisme · dualisme · French
dualisme · rank #51,422 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,422
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dribbles
Nearest frequency peer: dribbles (-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 « dualisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dragées
dragées
48,582 corpus weight
- dresseurs
dresseurs
48,581 corpus weight
- dribbles
dribbles
48,580 corpus weight
- dualisme
dualisme
48,579 corpus weight
- débaucher
débaucher
48,578 corpus weight
- déboutés
déboutés
48,577 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dualisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dualisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɥa.lism\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dualisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dualisme is uncommon French at frequency #51,422 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɥa.lism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
dualisme doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dualisme, spelled D-U-A-L-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Système qui suppose la coexistence, dans l’univers, dans l’homme ou dans les choses, de deux principes, de deux parties, de deux éléments.
- 2État politique ou social, dans lequel deux éléments différents coexistent.
- 3Régime parlementaire où le gouvernement est responsable politiquement à la fois devant le Parlement et devant le chef de l’État.
- 4Position qui se situe entre deux éléments opposés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dualisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le dualisme manichéen expliquait le monde par le concours et l’antagonisme de deux principes divins, le principe du Bien et le principe du Mal.
La guerre de 1914 a mis fin au dualisme de l’Autriche-Hongrie.
Synonyms
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); 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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