nanisme
French, noun\na.nism\
nanisme is spelled N-A-N-I-S-M-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 89,528th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nanisme is a French masculine noun meaning “dwarfism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Insuffisance de croissance conférant à celui ou celle qui en est atteint(e) une taille limitée à l’âge adulte”.
What does nanisme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedwarfism
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Insuffisance de croissance conférant à celui ou celle qui en est atteint(e) une taille limitée à l’âge adulte.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of nanisme
- nanismes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nanisme?
- \na.nism\
- [na.nism]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to nanisme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nanisme in French?
nanisme appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).