autosuffisant
\o.to.sy.fi.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“autosuffisant” is uncommon French (frequency #96,635 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,635
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se suffit à soi-même.
Corpus desk
Index FR-autosuffisant · autosuffisant · French
autosuffisant · rank #96,635 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,635
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH autori
Nearest frequency peer: autori (-1 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 « autosuffisant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- audioguide
audioguide
3,369 corpus weight
- autarcique
autarcique
3,368 corpus weight
- autori
autori
3,367 corpus weight
- autosuffisa…
autosuffisant
3,366 corpus weight
- Avesta
Avesta
3,365 corpus weight
- axones
axones
3,363 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « autosuffisant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autosuffisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \o.to.sy.fi.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #96,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « autosuffisant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
autosuffisant is uncommon French at frequency #96,635 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \o.to.sy.fi.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui se suffit à soi-même.".
No misspelling variants are generated for autosuffisant in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is autosuffisant, spelled A-U-T-O-S-U-F-F-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui se suffit à soi-même.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how autosuffisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un tiers de la population vit en zone rurale, mais le pays n’est pas autosuffisant en denrées alimentaires.
Cet éleveur est un ami de l’environnement : il se vante de produire lui-même une partie de la nourriture de ses animaux, de forer lui-même le sol pour les abreuver, d’être autosuffisant en paille, de mettre un filtre pour le fuel et de fabriquer plein d’électricité grâce à des panneaux photovoltaïques.
Synonyms
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); 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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