substitut
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,488
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
substitut is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui tient la place d’un autre, qui exerce les fonctions d’un autre, en cas d’absence ou d’empêchement légitime. Pronounced \syp.sti.ty\. Often confused with substituts and substitué.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | substitut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syp.sti.ty\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,488 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for substitut is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \syp.sti.ty\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,488 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for substitut, with forms such as "sbustitut", "ssubstitut", and "subbstitut". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "substituts", "substitué", "substituer", and more, 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 substitut, spelled S-U-B-S-T-I-T-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui tient la place d’un autre, qui exerce les fonctions d’un autre, en cas d’absence ou d’empêchement légitime.
- 2Magistrat chargé de remplacer au parquet le procureur général, le procureur de la République.
- 3Ce qui tient lieu d’autre chose, qui remplace.
- 4Mère porteuse.
- 5Signe avec lequel on peut faire diverses opérations intellectuelles sans avoir besoin de penser à la réalité signifiée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sbustitut,ssubstitut,subbstitut,subsittut,subsstitut,substittu,substittut,substitutt,substiutt,substtitut,substtiut,subtsitut,susbtitut,usbstitut
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for substitut
Misspelling Variants of "substitut"
Frequency rank: #16,488 in French
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