fidéiste
\fi.de.ist\
The verdict
“fidéiste” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte au fidéisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fideiste · fidéiste · French
fidéiste · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fidéiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fi.de.ist\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fidéiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fidéiste is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fi.de.ist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for fidéiste in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 fidéiste, spelled F-I-D-É-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte au fidéisme.
- 2Qui professe le fidéisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fidéiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est ainsi très frappant de constater que la position fidéiste de Luther, qui nie l’intelligence en croyant par là exalter la foi, conduit au résultat exactement opposé chez Hegel : la foi disparaît dans le devenir immanent de la raison.
M. Simon veut être rationaliste et il est tout simplement fidéiste. Toute sa doctrine repose en dernière analyse sur la foi : la foi religieuse est en lui à l’état de fait, il l’admet et quant à la chose et quant au nom, il en décrit les caractères et les effets, voilà tout.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.