racisme
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,956
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
racisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Conviction qu’on peut catégoriser les êtres humains en une série de races en se basant sur des critères physiques d’apparence scientifiques, surtout quand cela s’accompagne d’une hiérarchisation, c... Pronounced \ʁa.sism\. It ranks #3,956 in French word frequency. Often confused with raciste and racistes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | racisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.sism\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for racisme is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.sism\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,956 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for racisme, with forms such as "arcisme", "raccisme", and "racimse". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "raciste", "racistes", "réalisme", 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 racisme, spelled R-A-C-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conviction qu’on peut catégoriser les êtres humains en une série de races en se basant sur des critères physiques d’apparence scientifiques, surtout quand cela s’accompagne d’une hiérarchisation, consciente ou inconsciente, entre ces races.
- 2Doctrine politique préconisant la domination d’une race (dite pure ou supérieure) sur les autres (dites impures ou inférieures).
- 3Attitude de mépris ou d’hostilité, individuelle ou collective envers des individus en raison de leur race, de leur ethnie ou de leur culture. En ce sens, le mépris d’une personne en raison de son genre, son orientation sexuelle, sa physionomie, son âge, etc., est un racisme, en cela qu’il racise une personne, la caricature, pour mieux la stigmatiser (racisme anti-jeune, la misogynie et l’homophobie sont des racismes).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arcisme,raccisme,racimse,racisem,racismme,racissme,racsime,raicsme,rcaisme,rracisme
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Misspelling Variants of "racisme"
Frequency rank: #3,956 in French
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