nihiliste
\ni.i.list\
The verdict
“nihiliste” is uncommon French (frequency #50,386 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,386
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui professe le nihilisme philosophique qui proclame l’impossibilité de hiérarchiser les valeurs et implique l’amoralisme et le scepticisme moral
Corpus desk
Index FR-nihiliste · nihiliste · French
nihiliste · rank #50,386 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,386
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nicolle
Nearest frequency peer: Nicolle (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « nihiliste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nem
nem
49,618 corpus weight
- niaiser
niaiser
49,617 corpus weight
- Nicolle
Nicolle
49,616 corpus weight
- nihiliste
nihiliste
49,615 corpus weight
- normalisée
normalisée
49,614 corpus weight
- novi
novi
49,613 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nihiliste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nihiliste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni.i.list\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nihiliste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nihiliste is uncommon French at frequency #50,386 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ni.i.list\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nihiliste, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 nihiliste, spelled N-I-H-I-L-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celui qui professe le nihilisme philosophique qui proclame l’impossibilité de hiérarchiser les valeurs et implique l’amoralisme et le scepticisme moral
- 2Partisan du nihilisme russe, socialisme proche de l’anarchisme qui proclame le rejet de l’autorité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nihiliste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Autre idée, plus piteuse : le nihilisme serait une réaction de désenchantement face à «l'imperfection du monde et de l'Homme », qui engendre chez le nihiliste une volonté de nier toute valeur aux hommes réels, au profit d'un homme rêvé (et de même pour le monde)... Les nihilistes sont donc des dépressifs.
Il avait fini par devenir nihiliste : il professait les opinions les plus extrêmes, se moquait de sa propre secte, faisait gras en carême, jouait aux cartes et buvait du champagne comme de l’eau.
Antonyms
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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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