subito
\sy.bi.tɔ\
The verdict
“subito” is uncommon French (frequency #94,301 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,301
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Subitement, tout à coup.
Corpus desk
Index FR-subito · subito · French
subito · rank #94,301 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,301
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suavité
Nearest frequency peer: suavité (-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 « subito »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- styrène
styrène
5,703 corpus weight
- stérilisées
stérilisées
5,702 corpus weight
- suavité
suavité
5,701 corpus weight
- subito
subito
5,700 corpus weight
- submersibles
submersibles
5,699 corpus weight
- subtropical…
subtropicales
5,698 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « subito » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subito |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \sy.bi.tɔ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « subito » en français
Rare enough to double-check
subito is uncommon French at frequency #94,301 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \sy.bi.tɔ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for subito, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is subito, spelled S-U-B-I-T-O.
Definition
- 1Subitement, tout à coup.
- 2Sans retard, immédiatement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how subito appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pierre avalait les dames à la régalade. Il les animait, les entraînait, les poussait dans les coins, se montait un peu la tête, se déchaînait subito.
Après avoir pris des nouvelles de ma santé, voilà subito qu’il se met à pester contre tout : les corvées, l’ordinaire, les marches de nuit (des heures à crapahuter dans la neige, par un froid sibérien, harnachés comme des mulets).
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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