subsistances
\syb.zis.tɑ̃s\
The verdict
“subsistances” is uncommon French (frequency #70,241 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,241
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de subsistance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-subsistances · subsistances · French
subsistances · rank #70,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,241
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH subdivisé
Nearest frequency peer: subdivisé (-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 « subsistances »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stylisés
stylisés
29,762 corpus weight
- subdivisé
subdivisé
29,761 corpus weight
- subsistances
subsistances
29,760 corpus weight
- subterfuges
subterfuges
29,759 corpus weight
- sunt
sunt
29,758 corpus weight
- superposant
superposant
29,757 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « subsistances » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subsistances |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syb.zis.tɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #70,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « subsistances » en français
Rare enough to double-check
subsistances is uncommon French at frequency #70,241 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syb.zis.tɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de subsistance.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for subsistances, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is subsistances, spelled S-U-B-S-I-S-T-A-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de subsistance.
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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