rigorisme
\ʁi.ɡɔ.ʁism\
The verdict
“rigorisme” is uncommon French (frequency #93,183 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,183
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Morale trop sévère ; rigidité excessive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rigorisme · rigorisme · French
rigorisme · rank #93,183 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,183
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ridder
Nearest frequency peer: ridder (-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 « rigorisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- revolving
revolving
6,822 corpus weight
- rhinoceros
rhinoceros
6,821 corpus weight
- Rians
Rians
6,820 corpus weight
- ridder
ridder
6,819 corpus weight
- rigorisme
rigorisme
6,818 corpus weight
- rimmel
rimmel
6,816 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rigorisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rigorisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.ɡɔ.ʁism\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rigorisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rigorisme is uncommon French at frequency #93,183 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.ɡɔ.ʁism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Morale trop sévère ; rigidité excessive.".
rigorisme doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rigorisme, spelled R-I-G-O-R-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Morale trop sévère ; rigidité excessive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rigorisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais elle montrait un rigorisme si outré, elle pratiquait ses devoirs religieux avec tant d’obstination étroite, qu’elle avait comme séché dans l’existence méthodique qu’elle menait.
Devant pareil accueil, M. C... ne pouvait guère se refuser d'être aimable et, par forme de distraction, de se laisser aller à détendre, un peu (pour cette fois et par exception), le rigorisme de son caractère.
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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