sublimité
\sy.bli.mi.te\
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sublimité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.bli.mi.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sublimité » en français
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
- 1Caractère de ce qui est sublime.
- 2Action ou parole sublime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sublimité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.