sophisme
French, noun/sɔ.fism/
sophisme is spelled S-O-P-H-I-S-M-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,183rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sophisme is a French masculine noun meaning “sophism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Raisonnement qui n’est logique ou vrai qu’en apparence, mais qui est délibérément conçu pour tromper ou faire…”.
What does sophisme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesophism
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Raisonnement qui n’est logique ou vrai qu’en apparence, mais qui est délibérément conçu pour tromper ou faire illusion. 2. Tout raisonnement logique ou vrai qu’en apparence, qu'il soit exprimé avec bonne foi (paralogisme) ou dans le but de tromper (vrai sophisme).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sophisme
- sophismes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sophisme?
- /sɔ.fism/
- /sɔ.fizm/
- \sɔ.fism\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sophisme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sophisme in French?
sophisme appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).