extrémiste
\ɛk.stʁe.mist\
The verdict
“extrémiste” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,482. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,482
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tient de l’extrémisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-extremiste · extrémiste · French
extrémiste · rank #18,482 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,482
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH extreme
Nearest frequency peer: extreme (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « extrémiste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exploitées
exploitées
81,521 corpus weight
- extreme
extreme
81,520 corpus weight
- extrémiste
extrémiste
81,519 corpus weight
- Fall
Fall
81,518 corpus weight
- festin
festin
81,517 corpus weight
- feuillage
feuillage
81,516 corpus weight
What this shows « extrémiste » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extrémiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.stʁe.mist\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #18,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « extrémiste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around extrémiste (IPA \ɛk.stʁe.mist\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,482 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for extrémiste, with forms such as "etxrémiste", "exrtémiste", and "extremiste". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "extrémité", "extrémités", "extrémistes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is extrémiste, spelled E-X-T-R-É-M-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui tient de l’extrémisme.
- 2Au sens figuré, séparation équivalente à un cordon sanitaire au sens figuré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how extrémiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’autre part, j’étais extrémiste : je voulais tout ou rien.
Bagambiki, je l’apprendrai plus tard, est un personnage influent venant du MRND, le parti du président assassiné, dont il est l’un des durs. Nous réalisons vite qu’il n’est pas franc du collier et qu’il tente de nous doubler en manipulant ses réseaux extrémistes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etxrémiste
- exrtémiste
- extremiste
- extrméiste
- extrrémiste
- extréimste
- extrémiset
- extrémisste
- extrémistte
- extrémitse
- extrémmiste
- extrémsite
- exttrémiste
- extérmiste
- exxtrémiste
- xetrémiste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of extrémiste - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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