rationalisme
\ʁa.sjɔ.na.lism\
The verdict
“rationalisme” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,672. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,672
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doctrine qui pose la raison comme seule source de connaissance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rationalisme · rationalisme · French
rationalisme · rank #44,672 · 17 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,672
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ranking
Nearest frequency peer: ranking (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rationalisme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- railleries
railleries
55,332 corpus weight
- ralliés
ralliés
55,331 corpus weight
- ranking
ranking
55,330 corpus weight
- rationalisme
rationalisme
55,329 corpus weight
- ravaler
ravaler
55,328 corpus weight
- ravissement
ravissement
55,327 corpus weight
What this shows « rationalisme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rationalisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.sjɔ.na.lism\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #44,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rationalisme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around rationalisme (IPA \ʁa.sjɔ.na.lism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,672 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for rationalisme, with forms such as "artionalisme", "raitonalisme", and "ratinoalisme". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "rationalité", "régionalisme", "rationaliste", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 rationalisme, spelled R-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Doctrine qui pose la raison comme seule source de connaissance.
- 2Toute doctrine qui considère les choses uniquement d’après les données de la raison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rationalisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le triomphe du rationalisme ne fut pas aussi grand, mais il le fut autant qu’il pouvait l’être. Descartes eut le bonheur de rencontrer deux adversaires puissants, Gassendi et Hobbes, l’un le plus érudit et le plus habile, l’autre le plus radical et le plus conséquent des sensualistes.
Le rationalisme des Dialecticiens n’était pas sans faire courir un grave danger à la foi.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- artionalisme
- raitonalisme
- ratinoalisme
- ratioanlisme
- rationailsme
- rationalimse
- rationalisem
- rationalismme
- rationalissme
- rationallisme
- rationalsime
- rationlaisme
- rationnalisme
- ratoinalisme
- rattionalisme
- rrationalisme
- rtaionalisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rationalisme - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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