hermétisme
\ɛʁ.me.tism\
The verdict
“hermétisme” is uncommon French (frequency #83,930 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,930
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terme désignant les doctrines philosophiques des alchimistes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hermetisme · hermétisme · French
hermétisme · rank #83,930 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,930
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH helo
Nearest frequency peer: helo (-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 « hermétisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Havelange
Havelange
16,074 corpus weight
- haïkus
haïkus
16,073 corpus weight
- helo
helo
16,072 corpus weight
- hermétisme
hermétisme
16,071 corpus weight
- Hesbaye
Hesbaye
16,070 corpus weight
- hissés
hissés
16,068 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hermétisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hermétisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.me.tism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hermétisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hermétisme is uncommon French at frequency #83,930 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛʁ.me.tism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hermétisme, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is hermétisme, spelled H-E-R-M-É-T-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Terme désignant les doctrines philosophiques des alchimistes.
- 2Caractère secret, fermé, rigoureux et inflexible d’une doctrine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hermétisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On étudiait tout ce qui nous tombait sous la main : …, le satanisme, l’hermétisme, l’orphisme...
La question cruciale sur laquelle doit se déterminer tout commentaire de Mallarmé est celle de l’hermétisme.
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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