hellénisme
\ɛ.le.nism\
The verdict
“hellénisme” is uncommon French (frequency #91,776 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,776
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Construction propre et particulière à la langue grecque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hellenisme · hellénisme · French
hellénisme · rank #91,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,776
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH herbeuses
Nearest frequency peer: herbeuses (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « hellénisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hedjaz
Hedjaz
8,228 corpus weight
- Heft
Heft
8,227 corpus weight
- hellénisme
hellénisme
8,225 corpus weight
- herbeuses
herbeuses
8,224 corpus weight
- herd
herd
8,223 corpus weight
- hermano
hermano
8,222 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hellénisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hellénisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.le.nism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hellénisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hellénisme is uncommon French at frequency #91,776 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ.le.nism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for hellénisme in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hellénisme, spelled H-E-L-L-É-N-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Construction propre et particulière à la langue grecque.
- 2Tour, terme, expression qui est un emprunt directement à la langue grecque en une autre langue, souvent par translittération.
- 3Ensemble des idées et des mœurs de la Grèce antique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hellénisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était déjà le cas des poètes parnassiens, qui recouraient massivement aux latinismes et aux hellénismes lexicaux, syntaxiques, rhétoriques, insérés dans une forme métrique impeccablement classique.
Parler de discours symbouleutique, c’est utiliser un hellénisme.
This word in other languages
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.
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