parasitisme
\pa.ʁa.zi.tism\
The verdict
“parasitisme” is uncommon French (frequency #53,536 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,536
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitude de vivre en parasite, aux dépens d’autrui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parasitisme · parasitisme · French
parasitisme · rank #53,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,536
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parader
Nearest frequency peer: parader (-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 « parasitisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Palpatine
Palpatine
46,468 corpus weight
- pancho
pancho
46,467 corpus weight
- parader
parader
46,466 corpus weight
- parasitisme
parasitisme
46,465 corpus weight
- pardonnée
pardonnée
46,464 corpus weight
- Parr
Parr
46,463 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « parasitisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parasitisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.zi.tism\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #53,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « parasitisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
parasitisme is uncommon French at frequency #53,536 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʁa.zi.tism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for parasitisme, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is parasitisme, spelled P-A-R-A-S-I-T-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Habitude de vivre en parasite, aux dépens d’autrui.
- 2Condition d’un organisme vivant qui vit sur un autre corps organisé, qu’il en tire ou non sa nourriture.
- 3Nuisance, tare, caractère perturbateur d’une chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parasitisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut réagir contre la tendance de certains sociologues à généraliser la notion de parasitisme pour l'introduire en sociologie; tout être qui vit et prospère aux dépens d'autrui serait pour eux un parasite; les sinécures, la simple concurrence économique, seraient des faits de parasitisme.
Le parasitisme social peut prendre des formes très variées, depuis la délinquance, l'exploitation, le chantage, la corruption, la violence pour s'assurer des moyens ordinaires d'existence jusqu'à la prostitution et la mendicité.
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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