syllogisme
\si(l).lɔ.ʒism\
The verdict
“syllogisme” is uncommon French (frequency #61,925 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,925
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Raisonnement composé de trois propositions, la majeure, la mineure et la conclusion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-syllogisme · syllogisme · French
syllogisme · rank #61,925 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,925
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH symboliste
Nearest frequency peer: symboliste (+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 « syllogisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- summary
summary
38,080 corpus weight
- supporterai
supporterai
38,079 corpus weight
- suranné
suranné
38,078 corpus weight
- syllogisme
syllogisme
38,076 corpus weight
- symboliste
symboliste
38,075 corpus weight
- syntagme
syntagme
38,074 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « syllogisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | syllogisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si(l).lɔ.ʒism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « syllogisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
syllogisme is uncommon French at frequency #61,925 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si(l).lɔ.ʒism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Raisonnement composé de trois propositions, la majeure, la mineure et la conclusion.".
syllogisme doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is syllogisme, spelled S-Y-L-L-O-G-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Raisonnement composé de trois propositions, la majeure, la mineure et la conclusion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how syllogisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Tous les hommes sont mortels, Socrate est un homme, donc Socrate est mortel. » est un syllogisme.
Toute cette dialectique en syllogismes constituait une gymnastique excellente. Je dois la clarté de mon esprit, en particulier une certaine habileté dans l’art de diviser (art capital, une des conditions de l’art d’écrire), aux exercices de la scolastique et surtout à la géométrie, qui est l’application par excellence de la méthode syllogistique.
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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