subside
\syb.zid\
The verdict
“subside” is uncommon French (frequency #71,931 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,931
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Impôt occasionnel, secours d’argent accordé par des sujets à leur souverain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-subside · subside · French
subside · rank #71,931 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,931
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH subissez
Nearest frequency peer: subissez (-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 « subside »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stupidités
stupidités
28,073 corpus weight
- subirait
subirait
28,072 corpus weight
- subissez
subissez
28,071 corpus weight
- subside
subside
28,070 corpus weight
- substantifs
substantifs
28,069 corpus weight
- subséquents
subséquents
28,068 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « subside » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subside |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syb.zid\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « subside » en français
Rare enough to double-check
subside is uncommon French at frequency #71,931 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syb.zid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
subside has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is subside, spelled S-U-B-S-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Impôt occasionnel, secours d’argent accordé par des sujets à leur souverain.
- 2Secours en argent donné à un particulier.
- 3Subvention, fonds que l’État accorde à une entreprise pour la soutenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how subside appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il demanda des subsides à ses sujets ; les bonzes, qui possédaient la moitié des revenus de l’État, se contentèrent de lever les mains au ciel, et refusèrent de les mettre dans leurs coffres pour aider le roi.
Si l’on donne foi au bruit généralement accrédité d’une promesse de subside en hommes et en argent faite par la ville affranchie, […], on aura trouvé le secret de cette munificence.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).