subit

/\sy.bi\/ adj

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,613

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

subit is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est soudain ; qui arrive tout à coup. Pronounced \sy.bi\. It ranks #5,613 in French word frequency. Often confused with suis and suit.

Key facts for subit
PropertyValue
Headwordsubit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\sy.bi\
Letters5
Frequency rank#5,613
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of subit in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for subit is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sy.bi\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,613 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui est soudain ; qui arrive tout à coup.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for subit, with forms such as "sbuit", "ssubit", and "subbit". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "suis", "suit", "suie", and more, 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 subit, spelled S-U-B-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est soudain ; qui arrive tout à coup.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: sbuit,ssubit,subbit,subitt,subti,suibt,usbit

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for subit

Misspelling Variants of "subit"

sbuit5ssubit6subbit6subitt6subti5suibt5usbit5
Misspelling Variants of "subit"

Frequency rank: #5,613 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "subit"?
"subit" is spelled S-U-B-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sy.bi\.
What does "subit" mean?
As an adj, "subit" means: Qui est soudain ; qui arrive tout à coup.
What words are commonly confused with "subit"?
"subit" is commonly confused with "suis", "suit", "suie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "subit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "subit" is \sy.bi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "subit" come from?
"subit" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.