zaydiste
\za.i.dist\
The verdict
“zaydiste” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au zaydisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zaydiste · zaydiste · French
zaydiste · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Z" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zaydiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \za.i.dist\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
zaydiste is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \za.i.dist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au zaydisme.".
zaydiste doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is zaydiste, spelled Z-A-Y-D-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au zaydisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zaydiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Citant ‚‘Aqîl al-Maqtarî, figure de l'association al-hikma et ancien étudiant à Dammâj, Bernard Haykel rappelle que la filiation établie entre le salafisme de Muqbil et le réformisme de Muhammad al-Shawkânî, juge du XVIIIᵉ siècle au service d'imams zaydites ayant favorisé un certain processus de « sunnisation » du zaydisme, répond à une stratégie de « yém…
C'est ainsi que le sunnisme se divise entre quatre écoles (madhahib) principales : le hanafisme, le malékisme, le chaféisme et le hanbalisme, tandis que les grandes obédiences du chiisme sont les duodécimains (imamites), les septimains (ismaéliens), les alaouites et les druzes, à quoi il faut ajouter les zaydistes, une dissidence des duodécimains.
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.