gauchisme

/\ɡo.ʃism\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#45,072

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

gauchisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Terme employé par une organisation politique pour qualifier la politique ou une organisation située plus à gauche qu’elle sur l’échiquier politique. Pronounced \ɡo.ʃism\. Often confused with gauchiste and gaullisme.

Key facts for gauchisme
PropertyValue
Headwordgauchisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡo.ʃism\
Letters9
Frequency rank#45,072
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of gauchisme in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for gauchisme is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡo.ʃism\. Corpus data places it at rank #45,072 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for gauchisme, with forms such as "aguchisme", "gacuhisme", and "gaucchisme". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "gauchiste", "gaullisme", "gauchistes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is gauchisme, spelled G-A-U-C-H-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Terme employé par une organisation politique pour qualifier la politique ou une organisation située plus à gauche qu’elle sur l’échiquier politique.
  2. 2
    Approche ou théorie politique adoptée par les personnes qui privilégient le rôle révolutionnaire des groupes par rapport aux partis politiques et aux syndicats traditionnellement de gauche.
  3. 3
    Courant politique appliquant, de façon implicite ou explicite, les principes de mouvements politiques de l'extrême gauche (tels l'anarchisme, le maoïsme et le trotskisme).

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aguchisme,gacuhisme,gaucchisme,gauchhisme,gauchimse,gauchisem,gauchismme,gauchissme,gauchsime,gaucihsme,gauhcisme,ggauchisme,guachisme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gauchisme

Misspelling Variants of "gauchisme"

aguchisme9gacuhisme9gaucchisme10gauchhisme10gauchimse9gauchisem9gauchismme10gauchissme10
Misspelling Variants of "gauchisme"

Frequency rank: #45,072 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gauchisme"?
"gauchisme" is spelled G-A-U-C-H-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡo.ʃism\.
What does "gauchisme" mean?
As a noun, "gauchisme" means: Terme employé par une organisation politique pour qualifier la politique ou une organisation située plus à gauche qu’elle sur l’échiquier politique.
What words are commonly confused with "gauchisme"?
"gauchisme" is commonly confused with "gauchiste", "gaullisme", "gauchistes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gauchisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gauchisme" is \ɡo.ʃism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gauchisme" come from?
"gauchisme" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.