subsisté
\syb.zis.te\
The verdict
“subsisté” is uncommon French (frequency #55,619 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,619
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de subsister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-subsiste · subsisté · French
subsisté · rank #55,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,619
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH structural
Nearest frequency peer: structural (-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 « subsisté »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stratosphér…
stratosphérique
44,384 corpus weight
- structural
structural
44,383 corpus weight
- subsisté
subsisté
44,382 corpus weight
- suffixes
suffixes
44,381 corpus weight
- suivraient
suivraient
44,380 corpus weight
- surestimer
surestimer
44,379 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « subsisté » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subsisté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syb.zis.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « subsisté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
subsisté is uncommon French at frequency #55,619 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syb.zis.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de subsister.".
Zero misspellings are on record for subsisté in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is subsisté, spelled S-U-B-S-I-S-T-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier 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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