subsistait
\syb.zis.tɛ\
The verdict
“subsistait” is uncommon French (frequency #61,165 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,165
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de subsister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-subsistait · subsistait · French
subsistait · rank #61,165 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,165
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stéréotypés
Nearest frequency peer: stéréotypés (-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 « subsistait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stressantes
stressantes
38,839 corpus weight
- stylisée
stylisée
38,838 corpus weight
- stéréotypés
stéréotypés
38,837 corpus weight
- subsistait
subsistait
38,836 corpus weight
- succulents
succulents
38,834 corpus weight
- supporterais
supporterais
38,833 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « subsistait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subsistait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syb.zis.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « subsistait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
subsistait is uncommon French at frequency #61,165 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syb.zis.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de subsister.".
No misspelling variants are generated for subsistait in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is subsistait, spelled S-U-B-S-I-S-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de subsister.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how subsistait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour en finir avec l’obstacle que Vandenpeereboom avait créé, Delcour choisit de déforcer la loi, sachant bien que celle-ci ne pourrait plus opérer, résister, discriminer entre ses applications, si autour de Bruxelles ne subsistait plus de vrai rural, de rural proprement dit, de “purement rural”.
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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