wahhabisme
\wa.a.bism\
The verdict
“wahhabisme” is uncommon French (frequency #59,722 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,722
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doctrine islamique fondamentaliste issue du hanbalisme, fondée par Mohammed-Abd el-Wahhâb vers 1745.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wahhabisme · wahhabisme · French
wahhabisme · rank #59,722 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,722
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH whoa
Nearest frequency peer: whoa (+2 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 « wahhabisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- voil
voil
40,284 corpus weight
- Voiron
Voiron
40,283 corpus weight
- wahhabisme
wahhabisme
40,279 corpus weight
- whoa
whoa
40,277 corpus weight
- Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden
40,276 corpus weight
- wildlife
wildlife
40,275 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wahhabisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wahhabisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wa.a.bism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wahhabisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wahhabisme is uncommon French at frequency #59,722 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \wa.a.bism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Doctrine islamique fondamentaliste issue du hanbalisme, fondée par Mohammed-Abd el-Wahhâb vers 1745.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for wahhabisme in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for 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 wahhabisme, spelled W-A-H-H-A-B-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Doctrine islamique fondamentaliste issue du hanbalisme, fondée par Mohammed-Abd el-Wahhâb vers 1745.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wahhabisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pourtant le wahhabisme, cette interprétation très stricte de l’islam élevée au rang de religion officielle dans le pays, interdit toute consommation d’alcool et prêche un style de vie puritain. — (Mikal Hem, Et si je devenais dictateur, traduit du norvégien par Jean-Baptiste Coursaud, Gaïa, 2017, page 202)
La répression de droits humains ne faiblit pas et le wahhabisme, l’islam à la saoudienne, reste toujours aussi intransigeant.
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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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