submersible
\syb.mɛʁ.sibl\
The verdict
“submersible” is uncommon French (frequency #64,798 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,798
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut être submergé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-submersible · submersible · French
submersible · rank #64,798 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,798
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suck
Nearest frequency peer: suck (+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 « submersible »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- splendid
splendid
35,209 corpus weight
- squale
squale
35,208 corpus weight
- standardiste
standardiste
35,206 corpus weight
- submersible
submersible
35,203 corpus weight
- suck
suck
35,202 corpus weight
- suga
suga
35,200 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « submersible » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | submersible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syb.mɛʁ.sibl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #64,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « submersible » en français
Rare enough to double-check
submersible is uncommon French at frequency #64,798 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \syb.mɛʁ.sibl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for submersible in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is submersible, spelled S-U-B-M-E-R-S-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut être submergé.
- 2Qualifie certaines plantes aquatiques qui s’enfoncent dans l’eau après la floraison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how submersible appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous pouvons admettre sans trop nous éloigner de la vérité, que la partie insubmersible de l'île n'est en compte rond que de vingt mille hectares; que la partie submersible durant l'hiver ([…]) est de trente-quatre mille trois cents hectares ; que la partie, enfin, presque toujours entièrement submergée pendant l'automne, l'hiver et une partie du printemp…
Mais les bases du calcul précédent sont très-modérées en ce qui concerne la largeur de la plaine submersible, et plutôt exagérées en ce qui concerne celle du lit majeur entre les digues.
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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