philosophie
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,327
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
philosophie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Discours rationnel et critique sur l’univers, cela afin de mieux orienter l’action individuelle et collective. Pronounced \fi.lɔ.zɔ.fi\. It ranks #2,327 in French word frequency. Often confused with philosophy and philosophies.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | philosophie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.lɔ.zɔ.fi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #2,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for philosophie is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fi.lɔ.zɔ.fi\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,327 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for philosophie, with forms such as "hpilosophie", "phhilosophie", and "phillosophie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "philosophy", "philosophies", "philosophique", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is philosophie, spelled P-H-I-L-O-S-O-P-H-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Discours rationnel et critique sur l’univers, cela afin de mieux orienter l’action individuelle et collective.
- 2Doctrine, système de pensée, façon de voir le monde, de l’exprimer.
- 3Système d’idées générales que l’on cherche à dégager de l’étude d’une science, d’un art.
- 4Ouvrage composé sur une science ou un art en particulier et en renfermant les vérités premières, les principes fondamentaux.
- 5Enseignement portant sur la philosophie en général au lycée ou au cégep.
- 6Classe où se fait cet enseignement.
- 7En France, a longtemps désigné l’actuelle classe de terminale.
- 8Sorte de fermeté et élévation d’esprit par laquelle on se met au-dessus des intérêts individuels, des accidents de la vie et des fausses opinions du vulgaire.
- 9Ligne de pensée qu’on se fixe pour la conduite de sa vie.
- 10Caractère de corps dix.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hpilosophie,phhilosophie,phillosophie,philoosphie,philosohpie,philosophei,philosophhie,philosopihe,philosopphie,philospohie,philossophie,philsoophie,phiolsophie,phliosophie,pihlosophie,pphilosophie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for philosophie
Misspelling Variants of "philosophie"
Frequency rank: #2,327 in French
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