soufisme
\su.fism\
The verdict
“soufisme” is uncommon French (frequency #52,360 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,360
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conception mystique et ésotérique de l’islam, s’inscrivant ou non dans l’orthodoxie sunnite ou chiite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soufisme · soufisme · French
soufisme · rank #52,360 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,360
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soufflée
Nearest frequency peer: soufflée (-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 « soufisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Soubise
Soubise
47,644 corpus weight
- soudaines
soudaines
47,643 corpus weight
- soufflée
soufflée
47,642 corpus weight
- soufisme
soufisme
47,641 corpus weight
- soupers
soupers
47,639 corpus weight
- soupirer
soupirer
47,638 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soufisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soufisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.fism\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soufisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soufisme is uncommon French at frequency #52,360 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.fism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Conception mystique et ésotérique de l’islam, s’inscrivant ou non dans l’orthodoxie sunnite ou chiite.".
soufisme has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 soufisme, spelled S-O-U-F-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Conception mystique et ésotérique de l’islam, s’inscrivant ou non dans l’orthodoxie sunnite ou chiite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soufisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout ce qu’il raconte se trouve déjà dans le vedanta, dans le soufisme, et même, sans aller plus loin, dans Guénon.
Dans le soufisme, on ne trouve ni juridisme, ni dogmatisme, ni littéralisme. Le soufisme considère que personne n’a le monopole de la vérité. Il y a autant de chemins que d’êtres humains sur la terre. La diversité religieuse est une richesse. L’autre est mon miroir, il m’est nécessaire. https://web.archive.org/web/20101010171446/http://www.letemps.ch/Page…
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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