étrangisme
\e.tʁɑ̃.ʒism\
The verdict
“étrangisme” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mot emprunté à une langue étrangère sans faire partie de la langue qui l’utilise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etrangisme · étrangisme · French
étrangisme · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étrangisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tʁɑ̃.ʒism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étrangisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étrangisme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.tʁɑ̃.ʒism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mot emprunté à une langue étrangère sans faire partie de la langue qui l’utilise.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for étrangisme, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is étrangisme, spelled É-T-R-A-N-G-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Mot emprunté à une langue étrangère sans faire partie de la langue qui l’utilise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how étrangisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par contagion, la valeur d’étrangisme des occurrences de « monstre » présentées en italiques est rétrospectivement invalidée, au profit de l’accusation véhémente et de l’expression du mépris.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.