parasitisme
\pa.ʁa.zi.tism\
The verdict
“parasitisme” is an uncommon French word, ranked #53,536 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #53,536
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Habitude de vivre en parasite, aux dépens d’autrui.
| 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) |
Where “parasitisme” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for parasitisme is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ʁa.zi.tism\. Corpus data places it at rank #53,536 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “parasitisme”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-R-A-S-I-T-I-S-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.