enthousiasme
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,451
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
enthousiasme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Émotion extraordinaire de l’âme, qu’on suppose être l’effet d’une inspiration. Pronounced \ɑ̃.tu.zjasm\. It ranks #5,451 in French word frequency. Often confused with enthousiaste and enthousiastes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enthousiasme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tu.zjasm\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #5,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for enthousiasme is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.tu.zjasm\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,451 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for enthousiasme, with forms such as "enhtousiasme", "ennthousiasme", and "enthhousiasme". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "enthousiaste", "enthousiastes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 enthousiasme, spelled E-N-T-H-O-U-S-I-A-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Émotion extraordinaire de l’âme, qu’on suppose être l’effet d’une inspiration.
- 2Exaltation de l’âme, des facultés, qui accompagne quelquefois et surexcite le travail de l’esprit.
- 3Tout mouvement extraordinaire de l’âme qui excite à des actes de courage, de dévouement, etc.
- 4Démonstration d’une grande joie, d’une vive allégresse.
- 5Admiration extrême, goût très vif, parfois excessif, pour une personne ou pour une chose.
- 6Dans les Mystères de Dionysos, possession par l'esprit divin.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enhtousiasme,ennthousiasme,enthhousiasme,enthosuiasme,enthouisasme,enthousaisme,enthousiamse,enthousiasem,enthousiasmme,enthousiassme,enthousisame,enthoussiasme,enthuosiasme,entohusiasme,entthousiasme,etnhousiasme,nethousiasme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for enthousiasme
Misspelling Variants of "enthousiasme"
Frequency rank: #5,451 in French
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