sublimer
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,329
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
sublimer is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire passer directement un corps de l’état solide à l’état gazeux. Pronounced \sy.bli.me\. Often confused with sublime and sablier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sublimer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sy.bli.me\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #45,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sublimer is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sy.bli.me\. Corpus data places it at rank #45,329 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for sublimer, with forms such as "sbulimer", "ssublimer", and "subblimer". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sublime", "sablier", 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 sublimer, spelled S-U-B-L-I-M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire passer directement un corps de l’état solide à l’état gazeux.
- 2Idéaliser une personne ou une chose en la purifiant de tout élément matériel ou imparfait, impur ou étranger.
- 3Rendre sublime, plus attrayant ou plus beau.
- 4Transposer consciemment ou non ses pulsions ou ses complexes sur un plan supérieur, les faire dériver vers un objet plus élevé.
- 5Travailler pendant la nuit.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sbulimer,ssublimer,subblimer,subilmer,subliemr,sublimerr,sublimmer,sublimre,subllimer,sublmier,sulbimer,usblimer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sublimer
Misspelling Variants of "sublimer"
Frequency rank: #45,329 in French
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