simplisme
\sɛ̃.plism\
The verdict
“simplisme” is uncommon French (frequency #90,195 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,195
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Idée, doctrine très ou trop simple, qui ignore volontairement les complications et la complexité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-simplisme · simplisme · French
simplisme · rank #90,195 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,195
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sink
Nearest frequency peer: sink (+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 « simplisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sexagénaires
sexagénaires
9,812 corpus weight
- siempre
siempre
9,808 corpus weight
- simplisme
simplisme
9,806 corpus weight
- sink
sink
9,805 corpus weight
- sling
sling
9,803 corpus weight
- snipe
snipe
9,800 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « simplisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | simplisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.plism\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « simplisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
simplisme is uncommon French at frequency #90,195 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛ̃.plism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Idée, doctrine très ou trop simple, qui ignore volontairement les complications et la complexité.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for simplisme, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is simplisme, spelled S-I-M-P-L-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Idée, doctrine très ou trop simple, qui ignore volontairement les complications et la complexité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how simplisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’idée d’une relation linéaire entre la découverte et l’innovation, appelée « modèle linéaire de l’innovation » est aujourd’hui vivement critiquée pour son simplisme.
Synonyms
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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