empirisme
\ɑ̃.pi.ʁism\
The verdict
“empirisme” is uncommon French (frequency #57,913 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,913
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Système de philosophie dans lequel l’origine de nos connaissances est uniquement attribuée à l’expérience.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empirisme · empirisme · French
empirisme · rank #57,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,913
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Elina
Nearest frequency peer: Elina (-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 « empirisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- efs
efs
42,091 corpus weight
- Elina
Elina
42,089 corpus weight
- empirisme
empirisme
42,088 corpus weight
- emplis
emplis
42,087 corpus weight
- empresser
empresser
42,086 corpus weight
- encadrants
encadrants
42,085 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « empirisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empirisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pi.ʁism\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « empirisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
empirisme is uncommon French at frequency #57,913 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.pi.ʁism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
empirisme has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists 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 empirisme, spelled E-M-P-I-R-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Système de philosophie dans lequel l’origine de nos connaissances est uniquement attribuée à l’expérience.
- 2Pratique de la médecine exercée sans connaissances théoriques et fondée sur la seule expérience.
- 3Toute méthode qui prétend ne s’appuyer que sur l’expérience.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how empirisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, avec le triomphe du Newtonisme et de l’Empirisme en Angleterre, du Cartésianisme en France, le règne de la Scolastique prend fin.
Après des années de clivage idéologique fédéralistes-souverainistes, lucides-solidaires, « on verra » était une expression de pragmatisme. Un empirisme, diraient les philosophes, antonyme de l’idéalisme, base des idéologies.
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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