salafisme
\sa.la.fism\
The verdict
“salafisme” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,998. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,998
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouvement sunnite revendiquant un retour à l’islam des origines, fondé sur le Coran et la sunna.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salafisme · salafisme · French
salafisme · rank #39,998 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,998
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sagas
Nearest frequency peer: sagas (-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 « salafisme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sacerdotale
sacerdotale
60,006 corpus weight
- sacrifiant
sacrifiant
60,005 corpus weight
- sagas
sagas
60,004 corpus weight
- salafisme
salafisme
60,003 corpus weight
- salto
salto
60,002 corpus weight
- Salvini
Salvini
60,001 corpus weight
What this shows « salafisme » 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 | salafisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.la.fism\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « salafisme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around salafisme (IPA \sa.la.fism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,998 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mouvement sunnite revendiquant un retour à l’islam des origines, fondé sur le Coran et la sunna.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for salafisme, with forms such as "aslafisme", "saalfisme", and "salaffisme". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "salafiste", "salafistes", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is salafisme, spelled S-A-L-A-F-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Mouvement sunnite revendiquant un retour à l’islam des origines, fondé sur le Coran et la sunna.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salafisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Arabie saoudite propage le salafisme en formant dans ses universités de Riyad, de La Mecque et de Médine des milliers d’étudiants saoudiens ou étrangers.
Citant ‚‘Aqîl al-Maqtarî, figure de l'association al-hikma et ancien étudiant à Dammâj, Bernard Haykel rappelle que la filiation établie entre le salafisme de Muqbil et le réformisme de Muhammad al-Shawkânî, juge du XVIIIᵉ siècle au service d'imams zaydites ayant favorisé un certain processus de « sunnisation » du zaydisme, répond à une stratégie de « yém…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslafisme
- saalfisme
- salaffisme
- salafimse
- salafisem
- salafismme
- salafissme
- salafsime
- salaifsme
- salfaisme
- sallafisme
- slaafisme
- ssalafisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salafisme - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).