truisme
\tʁy.ism\
The verdict
“truisme” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vérité trop manifeste, qu’il est superflu de vouloir démontrer et qui ne vaut même pas la peine d’être énoncée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | truisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁy.ism\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “truisme” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for truisme is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁy.ism\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Vérité trop manifeste, qu’il est superflu de vouloir démontrer et qui ne vaut même pas la peine d’être énoncée.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for truisme, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is truisme, spelled T-R-U-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Vérité trop manifeste, qu’il est superflu de vouloir démontrer et qui ne vaut même pas la peine d’être énoncée.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “truisme”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-U-I-S-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁy.ism\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.