soustrayant
\sus.tʁɛ.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“soustrayant” is uncommon French (frequency #76,140 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,140
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de soustraire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soustrayant · soustrayant · French
soustrayant · rank #76,140 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,140
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sonneurs
Nearest frequency peer: sonneurs (-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 « soustrayant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sollicita
sollicita
23,863 corpus weight
- sonneurs
sonneurs
23,862 corpus weight
- soustrayant
soustrayant
23,861 corpus weight
- spear
spear
23,860 corpus weight
- spit
spit
23,859 corpus weight
- Sprache
Sprache
23,858 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soustrayant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soustrayant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sus.tʁɛ.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soustrayant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soustrayant is uncommon French at frequency #76,140 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sus.tʁɛ.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de soustraire.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for soustrayant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is soustrayant, spelled S-O-U-S-T-R-A-Y-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de soustraire.
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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