paupérisme
\po.pe.ʁism\
The verdict
“paupérisme” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Existence permanente d’un grand nombre de pauvres dans un pays.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pauperisme · paupérisme · French
paupérisme · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paupérisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \po.pe.ʁism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
paupérisme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \po.pe.ʁism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Existence permanente d’un grand nombre de pauvres dans un pays.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for paupérisme, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is paupérisme, spelled P-A-U-P-É-R-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Existence permanente d’un grand nombre de pauvres dans un pays.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paupérisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ils rechercheront les causes de la multiplication des crimes, de l’extension toujours croissante du paupérisme […]
Cette seconde conséquence du progrès est l’apparition d’un nombre important d’individus qui n’ont ni propriété ni fonction évidente dans l’organisme social. Ce nouvel élément est plus apparent dans les villes ; on en parle fréquemment sous le nom de paupérisme, et on le trouve également sous ses traits caractéristiques dans les districts ruraux.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.