sublimité

\sy.bli.mi.te\

/\sy.bli.mi.te\/ noun

The verdict

“sublimité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est sublime.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sublimite · sublimité · French

sublimité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "S" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for sublimité
PropertyValue
Headwordsublimité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sy.bli.mi.te\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « sublimité » en français

sublimitésiège au-delà des 100.000 formes les plus fréquentes du français, dans la traîne du lexique spécialisé ou peu usité.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sublimité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.bli.mi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

sublimité doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sublimité, spelled S-U-B-L-I-M-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Caractère de ce qui est sublime.
  2. 2
    Action ou parole sublime.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sublimité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dans un accès de piété filiale, écrasée par la sublimité de sa mère, elle se mit à genoux devant elle, saisit le bas de sa robe et la baisa, comme de pieux catholiques baisent les saintes reliques d’un martyr.
  2. Quels termes saurai-je trouver, suffisamment simples dans leur sublimité, — suffisamment sublimes dans leur simplicité, — pour la simple énonciation de mon thème ?

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sublimité"?
"sublimité" is spelled S-U-B-L-I-M-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \sy.bli.mi.te\.
What does "sublimité" mean?
As a noun, "sublimité" means: Caractère de ce qui est sublime.
How do you pronounce "sublimité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sublimité" is \sy.bli.mi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sublimité" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list