symboliste
\sɛ̃.bɔ.list\
The verdict
“symboliste” is uncommon French (frequency #61,926 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,926
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport au symbolisme littéraire ou artistique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-symboliste · symboliste · French
symboliste · rank #61,926 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,926
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH syllogisme
Nearest frequency peer: syllogisme (-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 « symboliste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- synthétiseu…
synthétiseurs
38,072 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « symboliste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | symboliste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.bɔ.list\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « symboliste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
symboliste is uncommon French at frequency #61,926 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɛ̃.bɔ.list\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
symboliste doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is symboliste, spelled S-Y-M-B-O-L-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport au symbolisme littéraire ou artistique.
- 2Qui se rattache au symbolisme, en parlant de personnes.
- 3Qui s’exprime par symboles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how symboliste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mouvement symboliste.
C’est la préoccupation de l’école. La phrase plus qu’assouplie, disloquée ; les règles, la syntaxe, la vieille construction logique dont parle Fénelon, abolies ; mots anciens et de jargon, grecs, latins, picards, toute l’érudition en délire et monstrueusement goguenarde de Rabelais, versée dogmatiquement et pontificalement dans la langue par ces prêtres d…
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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