subsista
\syb.zis.ta\
The verdict
“subsista” is uncommon French (frequency #87,186 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,186
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de subsister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-subsista · subsista · French
subsista · rank #87,186 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,186
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH strix
Nearest frequency peer: strix (-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 « subsista »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- streak
streak
12,817 corpus weight
- strix
strix
12,816 corpus weight
- subsista
subsista
12,815 corpus weight
- suna
suna
12,814 corpus weight
- supersonic
supersonic
12,813 corpus weight
- suppliciés
suppliciés
12,812 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « subsista » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subsista |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syb.zis.ta\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « subsista » en français
Rare enough to double-check
subsista is uncommon French at frequency #87,186 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syb.zis.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de subsister.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for subsista, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 subsista, spelled S-U-B-S-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de subsister.
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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