puritanisme
\py.ʁi.ta.nism\
The verdict
“puritanisme” is uncommon French (frequency #54,818 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,818
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doctrine des puritains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puritanisme · puritanisme · French
puritanisme · rank #54,818 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,818
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PVT
Nearest frequency peer: PVT (+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 « puritanisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- préventions
préventions
45,187 corpus weight
- PSL
PSL
45,185 corpus weight
- puritanisme
puritanisme
45,183 corpus weight
- PVT
PVT
45,182 corpus weight
- pâtit
pâtit
45,181 corpus weight
- périmées
périmées
45,179 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « puritanisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puritanisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \py.ʁi.ta.nism\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « puritanisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
puritanisme is uncommon French at frequency #54,818 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \py.ʁi.ta.nism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
puritanisme has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 puritanisme, spelled P-U-R-I-T-A-N-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Doctrine des puritains.
- 2Conduite de ceux qui professent une grande pureté de principes.
- 3Synonyme d'antisexualisme
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how puritanisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le puritanisme était moins une doctrine qu'une attitude d'esprit, celle des hommes qui voulaient « purifier » l'église, non seulement de tout contact avec Rome, mais des habitudes romaines.
La littérature érotique embrasse plus de réalités psychologiques que la morale bourgeoise ne voulait en connaître, et que le puritanisme n'en tolère. Or ces réalités, quoiqu'on en juge, sont au moins aussi quotidiennes et obsédantes que les réalités économiques, […].
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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