subsistaient
\syb.zis.tɛ\
The verdict
“subsistaient” is uncommon French (frequency #77,961 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,961
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de subsister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-subsistaient · subsistaient · French
subsistaient · rank #77,961 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,961
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suaves
Nearest frequency peer: suaves (-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 « subsistaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stetson
stetson
22,044 corpus weight
- stigmatisée
stigmatisée
22,043 corpus weight
- stéroïde
stéroïde
22,042 corpus weight
- suaves
suaves
22,041 corpus weight
- subsistaient
subsistaient
22,040 corpus weight
- summertime
summertime
22,037 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « subsistaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subsistaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syb.zis.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #77,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « subsistaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
subsistaient is uncommon French at frequency #77,961 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syb.zis.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de subsister.".
subsistaient has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is subsistaient, spelled S-U-B-S-I-S-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif 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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