fasciste

\fa.ʃist\

/\fa.ʃist\/ adj

The verdict

“fasciste” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,568. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,568
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est propre au fascisme.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fasciste · fasciste · French

fasciste · rank #12,568 · 12 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,568
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fermeté

Nearest frequency peer: fermeté (+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 « fasciste »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « fasciste » 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).

fasciste vs fascistes
89% similar
fasciste vs fascine
75% similar
fasciste vs fascisme
88% similar

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

Key facts for fasciste
PropertyValue
Headwordfasciste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\fa.ʃist\
Letters8
Frequency rank#12,568
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fasciste »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fermeté » (#12,569), « fermiers » (#12,570), « estimant » (#12,565). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fasciste » est au #12,568. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around fasciste (IPA \fa.ʃist\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,568 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for fasciste, with forms such as "afsciste", "facsiste", and "fascciste". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "fascistes", "fascine", "fascisme", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fasciste, spelled F-A-S-C-I-S-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est propre au fascisme.
  2. 2
    Qui utilise les méthodes du fascisme, totalitaire.
  3. 3
    Qualificatif polémique attribué à toute personne, à tout groupe de personnes, ou à leurs théories, par leurs adversaires afin de les diaboliser, de les discréditer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Leur sympathie pour le corporatisme, tel qu'avait tenté de l'établir le gouvernement Pétain sur le modèle de l’Italie fasciste et du Reich hitlérien, et qui, soumettant le travailleur au règne unique des traditions et des coutumes, c'est à dire de l’habitude, tend à ruiner en lui tout exercice de la liberté et de la raison.
  2. Il y eut aussi la révolution fasciste, que le Baron de D. refusait d'appeler autrement que « cette mascarade funèbre… », ou bien : « la pitrerie que vous savez ».

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • afsciste
  • facsiste
  • fascciste
  • fasciset
  • fascisste
  • fascistte
  • fascitse
  • fascsite
  • fasicste
  • fassciste
  • ffasciste
  • fsaciste

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fasciste - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

afsciste2facsiste2fascciste1fasciset2fascisste1fascistte1fascitse2fascsite2
Edit distance from "fasciste"

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 "fasciste"?
"fasciste" is spelled F-A-S-C-I-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fa.ʃist\.
What does "fasciste" mean?
As an adjective, "fasciste" means: Qui est propre au fascisme.
What words are commonly confused with "fasciste"?
"fasciste" is commonly confused with "fascistes", "fascine", "fascisme". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fasciste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fasciste" is \fa.ʃist\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fasciste" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list