laïcisme
\la.i.sism\
The verdict
“laïcisme” is uncommon French (frequency #84,008 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,008
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Position qui tend à donner aux institutions un caractère non religieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laicisme · laïcisme · French
laïcisme · rank #84,008 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,008
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lavable
Nearest frequency peer: lavable (-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 « laïcisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kébab
kébab
16,001 corpus weight
- laryngite
laryngite
15,997 corpus weight
- lav
lav
15,995 corpus weight
- lavable
lavable
15,994 corpus weight
- laïcisme
laïcisme
15,993 corpus weight
- lectio
lectio
15,989 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « laïcisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laïcisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.i.sism\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « laïcisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
laïcisme is uncommon French at frequency #84,008 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.i.sism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for laïcisme, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is laïcisme, spelled L-A-Ï-C-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Position qui tend à donner aux institutions un caractère non religieux.
- 2Défense excessive de la laïcité, notamment par prise de position anti-religieuse.
- 3Doctrine tendant à réserver aux laïcs une certaine part dans le gouvernement de l’église.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laïcisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce que l’école primaire de la troisième République et le laïcisme intégral ont pu créer de valable se trouve en toute sa force représenté dans l’Yonne mieux qu’en aucune autre région.
C’était plus qu’il n’en fallait pour inquiéter les partisans des régimes d’autorité […] Pour enrayer les progrès du laïcisme et des mouvements revendicatifs, ceux-ci mirent tout en action, essayant jusqu’à des coups d’État.
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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