subsistant
The verdict
“subsistant” is uncommon French (frequency #51,158 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,158
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui subsiste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-subsistant · subsistant · French
subsistant · rank #51,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,158
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH subordonnées
Nearest frequency peer: subordonnées (-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 « subsistant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Styx
Styx
48,846 corpus weight
- subliminal
subliminal
48,845 corpus weight
- subordonnées
subordonnées
48,844 corpus weight
- subsistant
subsistant
48,843 corpus weight
- superflues
superflues
48,842 corpus weight
- surnombre
surnombre
48,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « subsistant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subsistant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « subsistant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
subsistant is uncommon French at frequency #51,158 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui subsiste.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for subsistant, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is subsistant, spelled S-U-B-S-I-S-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui subsiste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how subsistant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La partie subsistante.
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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