subterfuge
\syp.tɛʁ.fyʒ\
The verdict
“subterfuge” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,754. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,754
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Échappatoire ou moyen détourné et artificieux pour se tirer d’embarras.
Corpus desk
Index FR-subterfuge · subterfuge · French
subterfuge · rank #44,754 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,754
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH strings
Nearest frequency peer: strings (-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 « subterfuge »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- stoner
stoner
55,250 corpus weight
- streep
streep
55,249 corpus weight
- strings
strings
55,248 corpus weight
- subterfuge
subterfuge
55,247 corpus weight
- suc
suc
55,246 corpus weight
- suffisaient
suffisaient
55,245 corpus weight
What this shows « subterfuge » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subterfuge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syp.tɛʁ.fyʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #44,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « subterfuge »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around subterfuge (IPA \syp.tɛʁ.fyʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,754 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Échappatoire ou moyen détourné et artificieux pour se tirer d’embarras.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for subterfuge, with forms such as "sbuterfuge", "ssubterfuge", and "subbterfuge". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is subterfuge, spelled S-U-B-T-E-R-F-U-G-E.
Definition
- 1Échappatoire ou moyen détourné et artificieux pour se tirer d’embarras.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how subterfuge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle a utilisé un subterfuge pour éviter de répondre à la question. C'est un moyen détourné (souvent rusé) utilisé pour tromper ou échapper à une situation difficile.
[…] ; c’est lui qui, dans tous les temps, démentira tous les vains subterfuges inventés par la perfidie pour violer impunément les droits de l’humanité.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sbuterfuge
- ssubterfuge
- subbterfuge
- subetrfuge
- subtefruge
- subterffuge
- subterfgue
- subterfueg
- subterfugge
- subterrfuge
- subterufge
- subtrefuge
- subtterfuge
- sutberfuge
- usbterfuge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of subterfuge - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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