soutenable
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,289
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
soutenable is anFrenchadj. It means: (En parlant d’une opinion, d’une proposition, d’une cause, d’une affaire) Qui peut se soutenir par de bonnes raisons. Pronounced \sut.nabl\. Often confused with soutenance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soutenable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \sut.nabl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #35,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for soutenable is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sut.nabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,289 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for soutenable, with forms such as "osutenable", "sotuenable", and "souetnable". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "soutenance", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is soutenable, spelled S-O-U-T-E-N-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(En parlant d’une opinion, d’une proposition, d’une cause, d’une affaire) Qui peut se soutenir par de bonnes raisons.
- 2Qui peut se supporter.
- 3(En parlant d'un comportement, d'une technologie,) qui respecte l'environnement.
- 4Qui contribue à la soutenabilité par la prise en compte des dimensions sociales, économiques et environnementales du développement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osutenable,sotuenable,souetnable,souteanble,soutenabble,soutenabel,soutenablle,soutenalbe,soutenbale,soutennable,soutneable,souttenable,ssoutenable,suotenable
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Misspelling Variants of "soutenable"
Frequency rank: #35,289 in French
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