fansub
\fan.sœb\
The verdict
“fansub” is uncommon French (frequency #75,681 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,681
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sous-titrage (le plus souvent d’un programme de langue étrangère) réalisé par des amateur·ices sans l’autorisation formelle des ayants droit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fansub · fansub · French
fansub · rank #75,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,681
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH faict
Nearest frequency peer: faict (-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 « fansub »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- factuels
factuels
24,323 corpus weight
- fagnes
fagnes
24,322 corpus weight
- faict
faict
24,321 corpus weight
- fansub
fansub
24,320 corpus weight
- fastueuses
fastueuses
24,319 corpus weight
- fatigants
fatigants
24,318 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fansub » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fansub |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fan.sœb\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fansub » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fansub is uncommon French at frequency #75,681 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fan.sœb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sous-titrage (le plus souvent d’un programme de langue étrangère) réalisé par des amateur·ices sans l’autorisation formelle des ayants droit.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fansub in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fansub, spelled F-A-N-S-U-B.
Definition
- 1Sous-titrage (le plus souvent d’un programme de langue étrangère) réalisé par des amateur·ices sans l’autorisation formelle des ayants droit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fansub appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La consommation de fansub touche surtout la tranche des jeunes fans d’anime, la population qui en consomme d’ailleurs le plus si je ne m’abuse.
Le fansub se fait donc plus rare mais, sur Internet, les fichiers de sous-titres sont encore largement disponibles, et parfois quelques heures à peine après la première diffusion d’un épisode.
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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