néologisme
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,179
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
néologisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Abus de la création de mots nouveaux ou de l’emploi de mots anciens dans de nouveaux sens. Pronounced \ne.ɔ.lɔ.ʒism\. Often confused with néologismes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | néologisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ne.ɔ.lɔ.ʒism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #35,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for néologisme is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ne.ɔ.lɔ.ʒism\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,179 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for néologisme, with forms such as "neologisme", "nnéologisme", and "noélogisme". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "néologismes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 néologisme, spelled N-É-O-L-O-G-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Abus de la création de mots nouveaux ou de l’emploi de mots anciens dans de nouveaux sens.
- 2Fait d’employer ou d'inventer des mots nouveaux (nom commun, adjectif, etc.) ou des expressions nouvelles.
- 3Mot nouveau ou récemment forgé pour répondre à un manque ou pour son caractère expressif.
- 4Nouveau sens donné à un mot existant ; néosémie.
- 5Mot qui n’existe pas utilisé par quelqu’un souffrant de certains troubles du langage (aphasie…).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: neologisme,nnéologisme,noélogisme,néloogisme,néolgoisme,néollogisme,néologgisme,néologimse,néologisem,néologismme,néologissme,néologsime,néoloigsme,néoolgisme,énologisme
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Misspelling Variants of "néologisme"
Frequency rank: #35,179 in French
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