onanisme
\ɔ.na.nism\
The verdict
“onanisme” is uncommon French (frequency #81,406 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,406
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme de masturbation ou de contraception naturelle, qui consiste à retirer son pénis du vagin de sa ou son partenaire, avant l’éjaculation, pour éviter la fécondation de l’ovule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-onanisme · onanisme · French
onanisme · rank #81,406 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,406
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH olmo
Nearest frequency peer: olmo (-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 « onanisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- offusquée
offusquée
18,598 corpus weight
- OIAC
OIAC
18,597 corpus weight
- olmo
olmo
18,596 corpus weight
- onanisme
onanisme
18,595 corpus weight
- OPJ
OPJ
18,593 corpus weight
- Orbit
Orbit
18,592 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « onanisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | onanisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.na.nism\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « onanisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
onanisme is uncommon French at frequency #81,406 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.na.nism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for onanisme in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is onanisme, spelled O-N-A-N-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Forme de masturbation ou de contraception naturelle, qui consiste à retirer son pénis du vagin de sa ou son partenaire, avant l’éjaculation, pour éviter la fécondation de l’ovule.
- 2Éjaculation en dehors du vagin, dont la masturbation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how onanisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous en donnerons encore une autre grave raison : c'est que ces actions solitaires et postcoïtales peuvent inspirer à la femme la passion de l’onanisme solitaire, comme l'expérience nous l'a appris depuis peu.
J’aurais même peut-être mieux fait de ne pas parler d’elle ici, pour ne pas exciter mes amies, et d’écrire à la place cet Essai sur l’Onanisme que je leur promets depuis si longtemps pour les amuser.
This word in other languages
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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