empirisme

/\ɑ̃.pi.ʁism\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#57,913

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

empirisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Système de philosophie dans lequel l’origine de nos connaissances est uniquement attribuée à l’expérience. Pronounced \ɑ̃.pi.ʁism\.

Key facts for empirisme
PropertyValue
Headwordempirisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.pi.ʁism\
Letters9
Frequency rank#57,913
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of empirisme in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for empirisme is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.pi.ʁism\. Corpus data places it at rank #57,913 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for empirisme in our index, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is empirisme, spelled E-M-P-I-R-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Système de philosophie dans lequel l’origine de nos connaissances est uniquement attribuée à l’expérience.
  2. 2
    Pratique de la médecine exercée sans connaissances théoriques et fondée sur la seule expérience.
  3. 3
    Toute méthode qui prétend ne s’appuyer que sur l’expérience.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #57,913 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "empirisme"?
"empirisme" is spelled E-M-P-I-R-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.pi.ʁism\.
What does "empirisme" mean?
As a noun, "empirisme" means: Système de philosophie dans lequel l’origine de nos connaissances est uniquement attribuée à l’expérience.
How do you pronounce "empirisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "empirisme" is \ɑ̃.pi.ʁism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "empirisme" come from?
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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.