masochisme
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#42,455
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
masochisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pratique sexuelle utilisant la douleur, la domination ou l'humiliation, reçue d'autrui ou de soi-même, dans la recherche du plaisir. Pronounced \ma.zɔ.ʃism\. Often confused with masochiste and machisme.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | masochisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.zɔ.ʃism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #42,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for masochisme is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.zɔ.ʃism\. Corpus data places it at rank #42,455 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for masochisme, with forms such as "amsochisme", "maoschisme", and "mascohisme". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "masochiste", "machisme", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is masochisme, spelled M-A-S-O-C-H-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pratique sexuelle utilisant la douleur, la domination ou l'humiliation, reçue d'autrui ou de soi-même, dans la recherche du plaisir.
- 2Attitude d'une personne qui recherche la souffrance, l'humiliation ou qui s'y complaît.
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Also misspelled as: amsochisme,maoschisme,mascohisme,masocchisme,masochhisme,masochimse,masochisem,masochismme,masochissme,masochsime,masocihsme,masohcisme,massochisme,mmasochisme,msaochisme
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Frequency rank: #42,455 in French
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