subsister
\syb.zis.te\
The verdict
“subsister” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,163. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,163
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exister encore, continuer d’être ; dans ce sens, ne peut se dire que des choses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-subsister · subsister · French
subsister · rank #29,163 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #29,163
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surprenantes
Nearest frequency peer: surprenantes (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « subsister »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- stigmatiser
stigmatiser
70,841 corpus weight
- stricts
stricts
70,840 corpus weight
- subsister
subsister
70,838 corpus weight
- surprenantes
surprenantes
70,837 corpus weight
- symbiose
symbiose
70,836 corpus weight
- Syphilis
Syphilis
70,835 corpus weight
What this shows « subsister » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subsister |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syb.zis.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #29,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « subsister »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around subsister (IPA \syb.zis.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,163 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for subsister, with forms such as "sbusister", "ssubsister", and "subbsister". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "subsistent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is subsister, spelled S-U-B-S-I-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Exister encore, continuer d’être ; dans ce sens, ne peut se dire que des choses.
- 2Demeurer en force et en vigueur ; se dit particulièrement des lois, des traités qu’on invoque, des propositions qu’on avance, etc.
- 3Vivre et s’entretenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how subsister appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pyramides d’Égypte subsistent depuis bien des siècles.
La plupart des grands édifices des romains ne subsistent plus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sbusister
- ssubsister
- subbsister
- subisster
- subsisetr
- subsisster
- subsisterr
- subsistre
- subsistter
- subsitser
- subssister
- subssiter
- susbister
- usbsister
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of subsister - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "subsister", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).