mimétisme
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,427
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
mimétisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Propriété que possèdent ou paraissent posséder certains êtres vivants de se rendre semblables par l’apparence, et notamment par la couleur, au milieu où ils vivent (→ voir mimétisme environnemental). Pronounced \mi.me.tism\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mimétisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.me.tism\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #37,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mimétisme is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.me.tism\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,427 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for mimétisme, with forms such as "immétisme", "mimetisme", and "mimmétisme". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 mimétisme, spelled M-I-M-É-T-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Propriété que possèdent ou paraissent posséder certains êtres vivants de se rendre semblables par l’apparence, et notamment par la couleur, au milieu où ils vivent (→ voir mimétisme environnemental).
- 2Capacité d’un être vivant à se rendre semblable par l’apparence à un autre être vivant (→ voir mimétisme interspécifique).
- 3Mécanisme du comportement humain qui consiste, pour l’enfant en particulier et l’homme en général, à imiter son entourage.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: immétisme,mimetisme,mimmétisme,mimtéisme,miméitsme,mimétimse,mimétisem,mimétismme,mimétissme,mimétsime,miméttisme,miémtisme,mmimétisme,mmiétisme
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Misspelling Variants of "mimétisme"
Frequency rank: #37,427 in French
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Nearby French words
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