monachisme

\mɔ.na.ʃism\

/\mɔ.na.ʃism\/ noun

The verdict

“monachisme” is uncommon French (frequency #64,619 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,619
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Institution monastique en général, état de moine.

Corpus desk

Index FR-monachisme · monachisme · French

monachisme · rank #64,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,619
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH moisir

Nearest frequency peer: moisir (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « monachisme »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « monachisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for monachisme
PropertyValue
Headwordmonachisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɔ.na.ʃism\
Letters10
Frequency rank#64,619
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « monachisme » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).monachismetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « moisir » (#64,618), « monier » (#64,620), « monitrice » (#64,621). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « monachisme » est au #64,619. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

monachisme is uncommon French at frequency #64,619 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.na.ʃism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Institution monastique en général, état de moine.".

monachisme doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

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 monachisme, spelled M-O-N-A-C-H-I-S-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Institution monastique en général, état de moine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how monachisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le développement du monachisme au Moyen Âge.
  2. Saint Benoît avait compris qu’il fallait à une telle époque un monachisme plus humble, plus laborieux, pour défricher la terre, devenue tout inculte et sauvage, pour défricher l’esprit des barbares.

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "monachisme"?
"monachisme" is spelled M-O-N-A-C-H-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔ.na.ʃism\.
What does "monachisme" mean?
As a noun, "monachisme" means: Institution monastique en général, état de moine.
How do you pronounce "monachisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "monachisme" is \mɔ.na.ʃism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "monachisme" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "monachisme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list