sadomasochisme
\sa.dɔ.ma.zɔ.ʃism\
The verdict
“sadomasochisme” is uncommon French (frequency #88,070 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,070
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pratique sexuelle utilisant la douleur, la domination ou l'humiliation dans la recherche du plaisir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sadomasochisme · sadomasochisme · French
sadomasochisme · rank #88,070 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,070
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sahariens
Nearest frequency peer: sahariens (+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 « sadomasochisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sabotent
sabotent
11,934 corpus weight
- saccagées
saccagées
11,933 corpus weight
- sadomasochi…
sadomasochisme
11,931 corpus weight
- sahariens
sahariens
11,930 corpus weight
- salla
salla
11,928 corpus weight
- samoan
samoan
11,927 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sadomasochisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sadomasochisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.dɔ.ma.zɔ.ʃism\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #88,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sadomasochisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sadomasochisme is uncommon French at frequency #88,070 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.dɔ.ma.zɔ.ʃism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pratique sexuelle utilisant la douleur, la domination ou l'humiliation dans la recherche du plaisir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sadomasochisme, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 sadomasochisme, spelled S-A-D-O-M-A-S-O-C-H-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Pratique sexuelle utilisant la douleur, la domination ou l'humiliation dans la recherche du plaisir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sadomasochisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le sadomasochisme représente une confrontation philosophique entre la pensée de l'homme bon par nature et l'homme mauvais qui doit brider ses passions.
Le sadomasochisme ressemble à des pratiques comme l’exhibitionnisme et le voyeurisme, dirait Nagel, en ce sens que ce sont des pratiques qui ne tiennent pas vraiment compte d’autrui.
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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