utilitarisme

/\y.ti.li.ta.ʁism\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#64,858

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

utilitarisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Doctrine qui consiste à ramener la notion du bien à celle de l’utilité, à faire de l’intérêt le principe du droit et de la morale. Pronounced \y.ti.li.ta.ʁism\.

Key facts for utilitarisme
PropertyValue
Headwordutilitarisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\y.ti.li.ta.ʁism\
Letters12
Frequency rank#64,858
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of utilitarisme in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for utilitarisme is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \y.ti.li.ta.ʁism\. Corpus data places it at rank #64,858 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for utilitarisme in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is utilitarisme, spelled U-T-I-L-I-T-A-R-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Doctrine qui consiste à ramener la notion du bien à celle de l’utilité, à faire de l’intérêt le principe du droit et de la morale.
  2. 2
    (Plus récemment, notamment chez les antispécistes) Doctrine qui mesure la moralité d’une action à l’aune des conséquences, positives ou négatives, qu’elle produit chez tous les êtres sensibles — humains et animaux — concernés.
  3. 3
    Action politique inspirée par l’utilitarisme.

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #64,858 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "utilitarisme"?
"utilitarisme" is spelled U-T-I-L-I-T-A-R-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \y.ti.li.ta.ʁism\.
What does "utilitarisme" mean?
As a noun, "utilitarisme" means: Doctrine qui consiste à ramener la notion du bien à celle de l’utilité, à faire de l’intérêt le principe du droit et de la morale.
How do you pronounce "utilitarisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "utilitarisme" is \y.ti.li.ta.ʁism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.