sunnisme
\sy.nism\
The verdict
“sunnisme” is uncommon French (frequency #72,771 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,771
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Islam orthodoxe, traditionnel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sunnisme · sunnisme · French
sunnisme · rank #72,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,771
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sulfures
Nearest frequency peer: sulfures (-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 « sunnisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sturgeon
sturgeon
27,233 corpus weight
- successorale
successorale
27,232 corpus weight
- sulfures
sulfures
27,231 corpus weight
- sunnisme
sunnisme
27,230 corpus weight
- supplication
supplication
27,229 corpus weight
- surhommes
surhommes
27,227 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sunnisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sunnisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.nism\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sunnisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sunnisme is uncommon French at frequency #72,771 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.nism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Islam orthodoxe, traditionnel.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sunnisme in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 sunnisme, spelled S-U-N-N-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Islam orthodoxe, traditionnel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sunnisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’y a pas de clergé dans le sunnisme : l’imam n’est pas un prêtre mais bien un membre de la communauté musulmane qui conduit la prière.
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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