néoclassicisme

/\ne.o.kla.si.sism\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

néoclassicisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom donné, à partir du XIXᵉ siècle, au retour à l’antique qui eut lieu à Paris et en Europe à partir des années 1750 en réaction contre le style qui prévalait alors, et qui se caractérise par la vo... Pronounced \ne.o.kla.si.sism\.

Key facts for néoclassicisme
PropertyValue
Headwordnéoclassicisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ne.o.kla.si.sism\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

néoclassicisme is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for néoclassicisme is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ne.o.kla.si.sism\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for néoclassicisme in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is néoclassicisme, spelled N-É-O-C-L-A-S-S-I-C-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom donné, à partir du XIXᵉ siècle, au retour à l’antique qui eut lieu à Paris et en Europe à partir des années 1750 en réaction contre le style qui prévalait alors, et qui se caractérise par la volonté de retrouver la grâce des modèles grecs, ainsi que la grandeur et la vigueur latines.
  2. 2
    Courant poétique et musical, qui se développa dans l’entre-deux-guerres en opposition au romantisme.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "néoclassicisme"?
"néoclassicisme" is spelled N-É-O-C-L-A-S-S-I-C-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ne.o.kla.si.sism\.
What does "néoclassicisme" mean?
As a noun, "néoclassicisme" means: Nom donné, à partir du XIXᵉ siècle, au retour à l’antique qui eut lieu à Paris et en Europe à partir des années 1750 en réaction contre le style qui prévalait alors, et qui se caractérise par la vo...
How do you pronounce "néoclassicisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "néoclassicisme" is \ne.o.kla.si.sism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.