soustraits

\sus.tʁɛ\

/\sus.tʁɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“soustraits” is uncommon French (frequency #79,759 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,759
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel de soustraire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-soustraits · soustraits · French

soustraits · rank #79,759 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #79,759
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH soupçonnez

Nearest frequency peer: soupçonnez (-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 « soustraits »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soustraits » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for soustraits
PropertyValue
Headwordsoustraits
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sus.tʁɛ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#79,759
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « soustraits » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).soustraitstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « soupçonnez » (#79,758), « spooky » (#79,760), « songeons » (#79,757). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soustraits » est au #79,759. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

soustraits is uncommon French at frequency #79,759 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sus.tʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel de soustraire.".

Zero misspellings are on record for soustraits in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is soustraits, spelled S-O-U-S-T-R-A-I-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin pluriel de soustraire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how soustraits appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les technologies de la plasmaphérèse, qui permettent d’ultra-filtrer sans dommage plusieurs litres de sang soustraits à la circulation sanguine, ont été ainsi préconisées par des industriels japonais désireux d’écouler des stocks inutilisés de reins artificiels usant de membranes capables d’assurer une telle ultra-filtration.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "soustraits"?
"soustraits" is spelled S-O-U-S-T-R-A-I-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sus.tʁɛ\.
What does "soustraits" mean?
As a verb, "soustraits" means: Participe passé masculin pluriel de soustraire.
How do you pronounce "soustraits"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soustraits" is \sus.tʁɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soustraits" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "soustraits", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list