exorcisme
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,288
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
exorcisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pratique religieuse ou magique, comportant certaines formules, certaines prières et certains gestes rituels, destinée à chasser le démon d’un endroit qu’il occupe : du corps d’un possédé, d’une cho... Pronounced \ɛɡ.zɔʁ.sism\. Often confused with exotisme and exorciste.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exorcisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zɔʁ.sism\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for exorcisme is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛɡ.zɔʁ.sism\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,288 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.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for exorcisme, with forms such as "eoxrcisme", "exocrisme", and "exorccisme". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "exotisme", "exorciste", "exorciser", 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 exorcisme, spelled E-X-O-R-C-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pratique religieuse ou magique, comportant certaines formules, certaines prières et certains gestes rituels, destinée à chasser le démon d’un endroit qu’il occupe : du corps d’un possédé, d’une chose, d’un lieu.
- 2Formule, prière par laquelle on exorcise.
- 3Stratagème de délivrance, “pour en sortir”.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eoxrcisme,exocrisme,exorccisme,exorcimse,exorcisem,exorcismme,exorcissme,exorcsime,exoricsme,exorrcisme,exrocisme,exxorcisme,xeorcisme
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Misspelling Variants of "exorcisme"
Frequency rank: #39,288 in French
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