traditionalisme
\tʁa.di.sjɔ.na.lism\
The verdict
“traditionalisme” is uncommon French (frequency #79,814 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,814
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doctrine qui, dominée par le souci de l’élément traditionnel, conteste la part de l’élément rationnel dans l’acte de foi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-traditionalisme · traditionalisme · French
traditionalisme · rank #79,814 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,814
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trachéotomie
Nearest frequency peer: trachéotomie (-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 « traditionalisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tournelle
tournelle
20,190 corpus weight
- toward
toward
20,189 corpus weight
- trachéotomie
trachéotomie
20,188 corpus weight
- traditional…
traditionalisme
20,187 corpus weight
- transes
transes
20,186 corpus weight
- traverseront
traverseront
20,185 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « traditionalisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | traditionalisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.di.sjɔ.na.lism\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #79,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « traditionalisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
traditionalisme is uncommon French at frequency #79,814 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁa.di.sjɔ.na.lism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
traditionalisme has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 traditionalisme, spelled T-R-A-D-I-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Doctrine qui, dominée par le souci de l’élément traditionnel, conteste la part de l’élément rationnel dans l’acte de foi.
- 2Attachement aux idées, aux coutumes transmises par la tradition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how traditionalisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À ce titre, il était de l’intérêt de l’« establishment » religieux de promouvoir et de défendre l’orthodoxie religieuse, l’éducation formaliste et un traditionalisme rigide sous prétexte de sauvegarder le caractère islamique de la communauté.
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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