écologisme
\e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒism\
The verdict
“écologisme” is uncommon French (frequency #81,711 among 40,273 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,711
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Doctrine du mouvement d’écologie ou des partis politiques écologistes, visant au respect de l’environnement, sa protection, sa préservation ou sa restauration.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecologisme · écologisme · French
écologisme · rank #81,711 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,711
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH écroulait
Nearest frequency peer: écroulait (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “écologisme”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- échanson
échanson
18,293 corpus weight
- éclatez
éclatez
18,292 corpus weight
- écologisme
écologisme
18,290 corpus weight
- écroulait
écroulait
18,289 corpus weight
- éditant
éditant
18,288 corpus weight
- électorats
électorats
18,287 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “écologisme” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écologisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écologisme” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
écologisme is uncommon French at frequency #81,711 among 40,273 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Doctrine du mouvement d’écologie ou des partis politiques écologistes, visant au respect de l’environnement, sa protection, sa préservation ou sa restauration.".
No misspelling variants are generated for écologisme in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is écologisme, spelled É-C-O-L-O-G-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Doctrine du mouvement d’écologie ou des partis politiques écologistes, visant au respect de l’environnement, sa protection, sa préservation ou sa restauration.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écologisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’écologisme a trois préoccupations : la conservation des ressources naturelles, la préservation des écosystèmes naturels et la hantise de la dégradation du milieu de vie.
L’écologisme (ou environnementalisme) est à la fois un courant de pensée, un corpus de valeurs et de propositions incluant notamment celles du mouvement écologiste.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écologisme", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.