soutenabilité

\sut.na.bi.li.te\

/\sut.na.bi.li.te\/ noun

The verdict

“soutenabilité” is uncommon French (frequency #72,751 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,751
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État, caractéristique de ce qui est soutenable.

Corpus desk

Index FR-soutenabilite · soutenabilité · French

soutenabilité · rank #72,751 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,751
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH soulagera

Nearest frequency peer: soulagera (-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 « soutenabilité »

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 « soutenabilité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for soutenabilité
PropertyValue
Headwordsoutenabilité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sut.na.bi.li.te\
Letters13
Frequency rank#72,751
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « soutenabilité » en français

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « soulagera » (#72,750), « soutenais » (#72,752), « souks » (#72,749). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soutenabilité » est au #72,751. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

soutenabilité is uncommon French at frequency #72,751 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sut.na.bi.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for soutenabilité, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is soutenabilité, spelled S-O-U-T-E-N-A-B-I-L-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    État, caractéristique de ce qui est soutenable.
  2. 2
    Ce qui semble raisonnablement contrôlable.
  3. 3
    Durabilité.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. « Il y a la question de la soutenabilité des travaux, qui sont déjà à un niveau record », se défend Jacques Baudrier, adjoint chargé du suivi des chantiers.
  2. Déjà fragilisé par les inquiétudes concernant la soutenabilité de la dette publique américaine, le dollar a poursuivi sa chute, en ce début juin, alors que grandit la fronde politique internationale visant à lui trouver une alternative.

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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 "soutenabilité"?
"soutenabilité" is spelled S-O-U-T-E-N-A-B-I-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \sut.na.bi.li.te\.
What does "soutenabilité" mean?
As a noun, "soutenabilité" means: État, caractéristique de ce qui est soutenable.
How do you pronounce "soutenabilité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soutenabilité" is \sut.na.bi.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list