substituer
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,748
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
substituer is aFrenchverb. It means: Mettre une personne, une chose à la place d’une autre. Pronounced \syps.ti.tɥe\. Often confused with substitut and substituts.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | substituer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syps.ti.tɥe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #16,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for substituer is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \syps.ti.tɥe\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,748 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for substituer, with forms such as "sbustituer", "ssubstituer", and "subbstituer". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "substitut", "substituts", "substitué", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is substituer, spelled S-U-B-S-T-I-T-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mettre une personne, une chose à la place d’une autre.
- 2Appeler quelqu’un à une succession après un autre héritier, ou à son défaut.
- 3Laisser des biens à quelqu’un par testament, pour qu’il en jouisse après le premier héritier.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sbustituer,ssubstituer,subbstituer,subsittuer,subsstituer,substiteur,substittuer,substituerr,substiture,substiuter,substtituer,substtiuer,subtsituer,susbtituer,usbstituer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for substituer
Misspelling Variants of "substituer"
Frequency rank: #16,748 in French
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