subjuguer
\syb.ʒy.ɡe\
The verdict
“subjuguer” is uncommon French (frequency #89,210 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,210
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réduire en sujétion par la force politique ou militaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-subjuguer · subjuguer · French
subjuguer · rank #89,210 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,210
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Studer
Nearest frequency peer: Studer (-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 « subjuguer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stratus
stratus
10,794 corpus weight
- straw
straw
10,793 corpus weight
- Studer
Studer
10,792 corpus weight
- subjuguer
subjuguer
10,791 corpus weight
- sucker
sucker
10,790 corpus weight
- suffragants
suffragants
10,789 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « subjuguer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subjuguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syb.ʒy.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « subjuguer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
subjuguer is uncommon French at frequency #89,210 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syb.ʒy.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
subjuguer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is subjuguer, spelled S-U-B-J-U-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Réduire en sujétion par la force politique ou militaire.
- 2Soumettre à son ascendant.
- 3Exercer un fort pouvoir de séduction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how subjuguer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rome a su vaincre & subjuguer beaucoup de Nations, mais elle n'a pas su gouverner ; elle a spolié les richesses de l'agriculture des pays soumis à sa domination : ….
Quelque cruelles, quelque extravagantes que soient ces lois, ne vous en étonnez plus : elles sont l'ouvrage de quelques tyrans ; elles sont les chaînes dont ils accablent l'espèce humaine ; elles sont les armes avec lesquelles ils la subjuguent : elles furent écrites avec du sang.
This word in other languages
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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