modernisme
\mɔ.dɛʁ.nism\
The verdict
“modernisme” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,449. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,449
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tendance à se détacher de la tradition pour adopter des idées modernes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-modernisme · modernisme · French
modernisme · rank #29,449 · 15 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,449
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH miséricordieux
Nearest frequency peer: miséricordieux (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « modernisme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- militent
militent
70,555 corpus weight
- Miquelon
Miquelon
70,554 corpus weight
- miséricordi…
miséricordieux
70,553 corpus weight
- modernisme
modernisme
70,552 corpus weight
- montures
montures
70,551 corpus weight
- morose
morose
70,550 corpus weight
What this shows « modernisme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « modernisme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around modernisme (IPA \mɔ.dɛʁ.nism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,449 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for modernisme, with forms such as "mdoernisme", "mmodernisme", and "moddernisme". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is modernisme, spelled M-O-D-E-R-N-I-S-M-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how modernisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutes ces vieilles coutumes ajoutent une note pittoresque à la vie de Santa-Cruz; mais elles finiront probablement bientôt par disparaître, emportées par le modernisme niveleur.
Tu ne vas pas faire une secte mormone ou amishe ? Bannir voiture, téléphone, le modernisme, quoi. Compte pas sur moi pour venir en chariot.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mdoernisme
- mmodernisme
- moddernisme
- modenrisme
- moderinsme
- modernimse
- modernisem
- modernismme
- modernissme
- modernnisme
- modernsime
- moderrnisme
- modrenisme
- moedrnisme
- omdernisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of modernisme - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).