hébraïsme
\e.bʁa.ism\
The verdict
“hébraïsme” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Façon de parler propre et particulière à la langue hébraïque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hebraisme · hébraïsme · French
hébraïsme · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" 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 | hébraïsme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.bʁa.ism\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hébraïsme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hébraïsme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.bʁa.ism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Façon de parler propre et particulière à la langue hébraïque.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hébraïsme in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is hébraïsme, spelled H-É-B-R-A-Ï-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Façon de parler propre et particulière à la langue hébraïque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hébraïsme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un hébraïsme, né d’une traduction irréfléchie de la particule.
Et de fait, à condition d’éviter les hébraïsmes, et d’en aligner la syntaxe sur le modèle allemand, le yiddish peut s’apparenter à l’un des multiples dialectes qui parcourent ce pays ultradécentralisé.
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.