nanisme
\na.nism\
The verdict
“nanisme” is uncommon French (frequency #89,962 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,962
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Insuffisance de croissance conférant à celui ou celle qui en est atteint(e) une taille limitée à l’âge adulte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nanisme · nanisme · French
nanisme · rank #89,962 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,962
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nanars
Nearest frequency peer: nanars (-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 « nanisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mûrie
mûrie
10,042 corpus weight
- nanars
nanars
10,040 corpus weight
- nanisme
nanisme
10,039 corpus weight
- nappa
nappa
10,038 corpus weight
- nationalisés
nationalisés
10,037 corpus weight
- Nemtsov
Nemtsov
10,036 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nanisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nanisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.nism\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nanisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nanisme is uncommon French at frequency #89,962 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \na.nism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Insuffisance de croissance conférant à celui ou celle qui en est atteint(e) une taille limitée à l’âge adulte.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for nanisme, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 nanisme, spelled N-A-N-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Insuffisance de croissance conférant à celui ou celle qui en est atteint(e) une taille limitée à l’âge adulte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nanisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle vit dans une sorte d’îlot frappé de nanisme. Et lorsqu’elle finit par découvrir ce qui l’entoure – les gens normaux, en somme – elle les traite de monstres.
Michelangelo Vitaliani, dit Mimo, le protagoniste du roman de Jean-Baptiste Andrea Veiller sur elle, est atteint de nanisme.
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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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