machisme
French, noun\ma.tʃism\
machisme is spelled M-A-C-H-I-S-M-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 44,936th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Machisme is a French masculine noun meaning “machismo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Culte de la virilité comprise comme une supériorité de l’homme sur la femme. Masculinité affichée, virilité…”.
What does machisme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemachismo
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Culte de la virilité comprise comme une supériorité de l’homme sur la femme. Masculinité affichée, virilité revendiquée, telle que pratiquée dans les années 1970, en Amérique latine, et dans le bassin méditerranéen.
noun: 1. Philosophie des sciences d’Ernst Mach.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of machisme
- machismes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce machisme?
- \ma.tʃism\
- \ma.kism\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to machisme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is machisme in French?
machisme appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).