nihilisme
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,972
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
nihilisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Doctrine selon laquelle aucune existence n’a de justification ou de sens en soi. Pronounced \ni.i.lism\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nihilisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni.i.lism\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #36,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nihilisme is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ni.i.lism\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,972 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 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for nihilisme, with forms such as "inhilisme", "nhiilisme", and "nihhilisme". 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 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 nihilisme, spelled N-I-H-I-L-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Doctrine selon laquelle aucune existence n’a de justification ou de sens en soi.
- 2Doctrine d’après laquelle rien de ce que nous croyons connaître par les sens n’a de réalité substantielle. Par extension, scepticisme radical affirmant l’impossibilité de constituer un savoir scientifique qui puisse être tenu pour vrai.
- 3Doctrine niant l’existence de toute valeur morale objective.
- 4Comportement ignorant tout objectif transcendant, de long terme, ou tout critère éthique. À l’extrême, comportement recherchant la destruction comme un but en soi.
- 5Système de pensée politique qui vise à la destruction de toutes les institutions religieuses, sociales, politiques.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inhilisme,nhiilisme,nihhilisme,nihiilsme,nihilimse,nihilisem,nihilismme,nihilissme,nihillisme,nihilsime,nihliisme,niihlisme,nnihilisme
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Misspelling Variants of "nihilisme"
Frequency rank: #36,972 in French
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