Skip to main content

stylisme

French, noun\sti.lism\

stylisme is spelled S-T-Y-L-I-S-M-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 57,843rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stylisme is a French masculine noun meaning “design” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Formalisme, soin apporté à la forme du style”.

What does stylisme mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinedesign

  2. 2

    masculinefashion design

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Formalisme, soin apporté à la forme du style. 2. Métier de styliste, consistant à imaginer et dessiner des modèles destinés au prêt-à-porter. 3. Travail sur l’aspect extérieur d’un produit industriel en vue d’un résultat esthétique s'accordant à des impératifs fonctionnels et commerciaux.

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 stylisme

  • stylismes plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce stylisme?

  • \sti.lism\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is stylisme in French?

stylisme appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What to look up after stylisme