modernisme
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,449
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
modernisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tendance à se détacher de la tradition pour adopter des idées modernes. Pronounced \mɔ.dɛʁ.nism\. Often confused with modernité and moderniste.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | modernisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.dɛʁ.nism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #29,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for modernisme is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.dɛʁ.nism\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,449 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for modernisme, with forms such as "mdoernisme", "mmodernisme", and "moddernisme". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "modernité", "moderniste", "modernisé", and more, 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 modernisme, spelled M-O-D-E-R-N-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tendance à se détacher de la tradition pour adopter des idées modernes.
- 2Gout de ce qui est moderne.
- 3Mouvement chrétien préconisant une nouvelle interprétation des croyances et des doctrines traditionnelles.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mdoernisme,mmodernisme,moddernisme,modenrisme,moderinsme,modernimse,modernisem,modernismme,modernissme,modernnisme,modernsime,moderrnisme,modrenisme,moedrnisme,omdernisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for modernisme
Misspelling Variants of "modernisme"
Frequency rank: #29,449 in French
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