nationalisme
\na.sjɔ.na.lism\
The verdict
“nationalisme” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,544. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,544
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sentiment qui consiste dans l’exaltation de l’idée nationale, doctrine politique basée sur ce sentiment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nationalisme · nationalisme · French
nationalisme · rank #10,544 · 17 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,544
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH naissances
Nearest frequency peer: naissances (-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 « nationalisme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nager
nager
89,460 corpus weight
- nain
nain
89,459 corpus weight
- naissances
naissances
89,458 corpus weight
- nationalisme
nationalisme
89,457 corpus weight
- Norman
Norman
89,456 corpus weight
- orale
orale
89,455 corpus weight
What this shows « nationalisme » 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 | nationalisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.sjɔ.na.lism\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #10,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nationalisme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around nationalisme (IPA \na.sjɔ.na.lism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,544 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sentiment qui consiste dans l’exaltation de l’idée nationale, doctrine politique basée sur ce sentiment.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for nationalisme, with forms such as "antionalisme", "naitonalisme", and "natinoalisme". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "nationalité", "nationaliste", "nationalistes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is nationalisme, spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Sentiment qui consiste dans l’exaltation de l’idée nationale, doctrine politique basée sur ce sentiment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nationalisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mépris où il tenait le nationalisme dont j’ai toujours eu l’aversion, le dédain qu’il témoignait pour les trémolos sur le grand air de patrie qui enchantaient le sentimentalisme alangui de mon cher Paul Deschanel achevèrent de m’attacher à lui.
J'aime tous les peuples, dit Dobranski, mais je n'aime aucune nation. Je suis patriote, je ne suis pas nationaliste. - Quelle est la différence ? - Le patriotisme, c'est l'amour des siens. Le nationalisme, c'est la haine des autres.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- antionalisme
- naitonalisme
- natinoalisme
- natioanlisme
- nationailsme
- nationalimse
- nationalisem
- nationalismme
- nationalissme
- nationallisme
- nationalsime
- nationlaisme
- nationnalisme
- natoinalisme
- nattionalisme
- nnationalisme
- ntaionalisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nationalisme - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).