subsidiaire
\syb.zi.djɛʁ\
The verdict
“subsidiaire” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,573. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,573
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui sert à fortifier un moyen principal, qui vient à l’appui, destiné à suppléer ce qui viendrait à faire défaut.
Corpus desk
Index FR-subsidiaire · subsidiaire · French
subsidiaire · rank #37,573 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,573
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stressés
Nearest frequency peer: stressés (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « subsidiaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- strass
strass
62,431 corpus weight
- streamer
streamer
62,430 corpus weight
- stressés
stressés
62,429 corpus weight
- subsidiaire
subsidiaire
62,428 corpus weight
- surmontées
surmontées
62,427 corpus weight
- survivance
survivance
62,426 corpus weight
What this shows « subsidiaire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subsidiaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syb.zi.djɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #37,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « subsidiaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around subsidiaire (IPA \syb.zi.djɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,573 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for subsidiaire, with forms such as "sbusidiaire", "ssubsidiaire", and "subbsidiaire". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 subsidiaire, spelled S-U-B-S-I-D-I-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui sert à fortifier un moyen principal, qui vient à l’appui, destiné à suppléer ce qui viendrait à faire défaut.
- 2Qui vient à l’appui d'une chose plus importante, qui constitue un élément accessoire, par surcroît.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how subsidiaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La société Hydra LS demande au juge administratif d’annuler le marché public de service conclu par l’office public de l’habitat de Calais avec la société des Eaux de Calais ayant pour objet la maintenance des suppresseurs d’eaux et, à titre subsidiaire, de résilier le marché conclu par l’office public de l’habitat de Calais avec la société des Eaux de Cal…
Des moyens subsidiaires.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sbusidiaire
- ssubsidiaire
- subbsidiaire
- subisdiaire
- subsdiiaire
- subsidaiire
- subsiddiaire
- subsidiaier
- subsidiairre
- subsidiarie
- subsidiiare
- subsiidaire
- subssidiaire
- susbidiaire
- usbsidiaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of subsidiaire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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