subordonner
\sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.ne\
The verdict
“subordonner” is uncommon French (frequency #71,091 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,091
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établir un ordre de dépendance de l’inférieur au supérieur. Ceci, dans une relation de pouvoir unidirectionnelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-subordonner · subordonner · French
subordonner · rank #71,091 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,091
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sublet
Nearest frequency peer: sublet (-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 « subordonner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stylées
stylées
28,913 corpus weight
- subjuguée
subjuguée
28,912 corpus weight
- sublet
sublet
28,911 corpus weight
- subordonner
subordonner
28,910 corpus weight
- sudètes
sudètes
28,909 corpus weight
- suggestif
suggestif
28,908 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « subordonner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subordonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #71,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « subordonner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
subordonner is uncommon French at frequency #71,091 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sy.bɔʁ.dɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
subordonner has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is subordonner, spelled S-U-B-O-R-D-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Établir un ordre de dépendance de l’inférieur au supérieur. Ceci, dans une relation de pouvoir unidirectionnelle.
- 2Il se dit aussi en parlant des choses.
- 3Mettre en relation de condition une chose vis-à-vis d’une autre ; conditionner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how subordonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’organisation militaire subordonne le lieutenant au capitaine, le capitaine au commandant, etc.
Les curés et leurs vicaires sont subordonnés aux évêques.
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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