truisme
French, noun/tʁɥism/
truisme is spelled T-R-U-I-S-M-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 117,104th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Truisme is a French masculine noun meaning “truism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vérité trop manifeste, qu’il est superflu de vouloir démontrer et qui ne vaut même pas la peine d’être…”.
What does truisme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetruism
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vérité trop manifeste, qu’il est superflu de vouloir démontrer et qui ne vaut même pas la peine d’être énoncée.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of truisme
- truismes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce truisme?
- /tʁɥism/
- /tʁɥizm/
- /tʁy.ism/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to truisme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is truisme in French?
truisme appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).