existentialisme

\ɛɡ.zis.tɑ̃.sja.lism\

/\ɛɡ.zis.tɑ̃.sja.lism\/ noun

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The verdict

“existentialisme” is uncommon French (frequency #55,272 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,272
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Courant philosophique mettant en avant la liberté de l’homme et sa vocation à décider lui-même de sa propre existence.

Corpus desk

Index FR-existentialisme · existentialisme · French

existentialisme · rank #55,272 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,272
  • LEN-MEGA 15 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH exhale

Nearest frequency peer: exhale (-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 « existentialisme »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « existentialisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for existentialisme
PropertyValue
Headwordexistentialisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛɡ.zis.tɑ̃.sja.lism\
Letters15
Frequency rank#55,272
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « existentialisme » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).existentialismetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « exhale » (#55,271), « expressivité » (#55,273), « exaspérant » (#55,270). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « existentialisme » est au #55,272. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

existentialisme is uncommon French at frequency #55,272 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛɡ.zis.tɑ̃.sja.lism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Courant philosophique mettant en avant la liberté de l’homme et sa vocation à décider lui-même de sa propre existence.".

No misspelling variants are generated for existentialisme in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is existentialisme, spelled E-X-I-S-T-E-N-T-I-A-L-I-S-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Courant philosophique mettant en avant la liberté de l’homme et sa vocation à décider lui-même de sa propre existence.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how existentialisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Comme toutes les étiquettes philosophiques, le nom d’existentialisme désigne plutôt une tendance qu’une doctrine.
  2. Pour ce faire, la jeunesse parisienne a choisi l’originalité et opte pour la tendance philosophique que prônent Sartre, Camus et Simone de Beauvoir au cœur du Quartier Latin. Là, l’existentialisme s’en donne à cœur joie. Sans oublier les farfelus utopistes tels que Ferdinand Lope^([sic]), assisté de ses « Lopettes ».

This word in other languages

existentialism(English)Existentialismus(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "existentialisme"?
"existentialisme" is spelled E-X-I-S-T-E-N-T-I-A-L-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛɡ.zis.tɑ̃.sja.lism\.
What does "existentialisme" mean?
As a noun, "existentialisme" means: Courant philosophique mettant en avant la liberté de l’homme et sa vocation à décider lui-même de sa propre existence.
How do you pronounce "existentialisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "existentialisme" is \ɛɡ.zis.tɑ̃.sja.lism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "existentialisme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list