souverainisme
\su.vʁɛ.nism\
The verdict
“souverainisme” is uncommon French (frequency #69,443 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,443
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Option politique selon laquelle le Québec devrait devenir un pays souverain, donc quitter la fédération canadienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souverainisme · souverainisme · French
souverainisme · rank #69,443 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,443
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souscrivant
Nearest frequency peer: souscrivant (-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 « souverainisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soulagent
soulagent
30,561 corpus weight
- sourcing
sourcing
30,560 corpus weight
- souscrivant
souscrivant
30,559 corpus weight
- souverainis…
souverainisme
30,558 corpus weight
- spinale
spinale
30,557 corpus weight
- spéculateur
spéculateur
30,556 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « souverainisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | souverainisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.vʁɛ.nism\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #69,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « souverainisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
souverainisme is uncommon French at frequency #69,443 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.vʁɛ.nism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for souverainisme in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is souverainisme, spelled S-O-U-V-E-R-A-I-N-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Option politique selon laquelle le Québec devrait devenir un pays souverain, donc quitter la fédération canadienne.
- 2Option politique basée sur la défense de la souveraineté de chaque pays, par opposition aux doctrines prônant une plus grande intégration européenne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how souverainisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les fédéralistes, eux, abhorrent son souverainisme et les indépendantistes, en retour, l’accusent d'être trop mou.
Nationaliste, le journaliste reconnaît avoir voté OUI en 1980 et en 1995. Le discours de Jacques Parizeau, lors de cette seconde défaite, a transformé son souverainisme mou en fédéralisme pragmatique.
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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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