expansionnisme
\ɛks.pɑ̃.sjɔ.nism\
The verdict
“expansionnisme” is uncommon French (frequency #82,939 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,939
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doctrine qui préconise l’expansion d’un pays au-delà de ses frontières.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expansionnisme · expansionnisme · French
expansionnisme · rank #82,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,939
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH fabriqua
Nearest frequency peer: fabriqua (+2 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 « expansionnisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- essayai
essayai
17,067 corpus weight
- estocade
estocade
17,066 corpus weight
- expansionni…
expansionnisme
17,062 corpus weight
- fabriqua
fabriqua
17,060 corpus weight
- fanboys
fanboys
17,059 corpus weight
- fanent
fanent
17,058 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « expansionnisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expansionnisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛks.pɑ̃.sjɔ.nism\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #82,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « expansionnisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
expansionnisme is uncommon French at frequency #82,939 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛks.pɑ̃.sjɔ.nism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
expansionnisme has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is expansionnisme, spelled E-X-P-A-N-S-I-O-N-N-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Doctrine qui préconise l’expansion d’un pays au-delà de ses frontières.
- 2Tout effort pour répandre une idée, une doctrine, une entreprise ou ses produits, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how expansionnisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur le temps long, la Russie a en réalité une histoire marquée par l’expansionnisme, comme le résumait en 2015 l’historien militaire Claude Franc : « La politique constamment poursuivie par la Russie a consisté d’abord à atteindre les mers depuis Moscou, puis à s’assurer des débouchés vers les mers libres de glace durant toute l’année. Cela s’est traduit…
L’expansionnisme de Gazprom est un défi, pas une menace.
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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.
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