maternité de substitution
\ma.tɛʁ.ni.te də syb.sti.ty.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“maternité de substitution” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Procédé par lequel une femme porte l'enfant d'une autre femme pour lui donner naissance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maternité de substitution |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.tɛʁ.ni.te də syb.sti.ty.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maternité de substitution” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maternité de substitution is 25 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.tɛʁ.ni.te də syb.sti.ty.sjɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Procédé par lequel une femme porte l'enfant d'une autre femme pour lui donner naissance.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for maternité de substitution, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is maternité de substitution, spelled M-A-T-E-R-N-I-T-É- -D-E- -S-U-B-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Procédé par lequel une femme porte l'enfant d'une autre femme pour lui donner naissance.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-T-E-R-N-I-T-É- -D-E- -S-U-B-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.