fanatisme

\fa.na.tism\

/\fa.na.tism\/ noun

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The verdict

“fanatisme” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,863. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,863
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zèle outré, et souvent cruel, pour une religion, ou, par extension, attachement opiniâtre et violent à un parti, à une opinion, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fanatisme · fanatisme · French

fanatisme · rank #23,863 · 13 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,863
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH favoritisme

Nearest frequency peer: favoritisme (+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 « fanatisme »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « fanatisme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

fanatisme vs fantasme
78% similar
fanatisme vs fatalisme
78% similar
fanatisme vs fanatique
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for fanatisme
PropertyValue
Headwordfanatisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fa.na.tism\
Letters9
Frequency rank#23,863
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fanatisme »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.fanatismese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « favoritisme » (#23,864), « extrémisme » (#23,861), « Faye » (#23,865). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fanatisme » est au #23,863. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around fanatisme (IPA \fa.na.tism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,863 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Zèle outré, et souvent cruel, pour une religion, ou, par extension, attachement opiniâtre et violent à un parti, à une opinion, etc.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for fanatisme, with forms such as "afnatisme", "faantisme", and "fanaitsme". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "fantasme", "fatalisme", "fanatique", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fanatisme, spelled F-A-N-A-T-I-S-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Zèle outré, et souvent cruel, pour une religion, ou, par extension, attachement opiniâtre et violent à un parti, à une opinion, etc.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le fanatisme est à la superstition ce que le transport est à la fièvre, ce que la rage est à la colère. Celui qui a des extases, des visions, qui prend ses songes pour des réalités, et ses imaginations pour des prophéties, est un enthousiaste ; celui qui soutient sa folie par le meurtre est un fanatique.
  2. Le plus détestable exemple de fanatisme est celui des bourgeois de Paris, qui coururent assassiner, égorger, jeter par les fenêtres, mettre en pièces, la nuit de la Saint-Barthélémy, leurs concitoyens qui n’allaient point à la messe.

This word in other languages

fanaticism(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • afnatisme
  • faantisme
  • fanaitsme
  • fanatimse
  • fanatisem
  • fanatismme
  • fanatissme
  • fanatsime
  • fanattisme
  • fannatisme
  • fantaisme
  • ffanatisme
  • fnaatisme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fanatisme - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

afnatisme2faantisme2fanaitsme2fanatimse2fanatisem2fanatismme1fanatissme1fanatsime2
Edit distance from "fanatisme"

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 "fanatisme"?
"fanatisme" is spelled F-A-N-A-T-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fa.na.tism\.
What does "fanatisme" mean?
As a noun, "fanatisme" means: Zèle outré, et souvent cruel, pour une religion, ou, par extension, attachement opiniâtre et violent à un parti, à une opinion, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "fanatisme"?
"fanatisme" is commonly confused with "fantasme", "fatalisme", "fanatique". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fanatisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fanatisme" is \fa.na.tism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fanatisme" come from?
"fanatisme" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

encadrant#23,856fractions#23,871désignait#23,849gingembre#23,877

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

endommagée13 variantsdécidant13 variantsdécerner13 variantsimpartial13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list