subtiliser
\syp.ti.li.ze\
The verdict
“subtiliser” is uncommon French (frequency #68,675 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,675
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre subtil, volatiliser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-subtiliser · subtiliser · French
subtiliser · rank #68,675 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,675
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH subjectivement
Nearest frequency peer: subjectivement (-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 « subtiliser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- struggle
struggle
31,329 corpus weight
- Stéphanoise
Stéphanoise
31,328 corpus weight
- subjectivem…
subjectivement
31,327 corpus weight
- subtiliser
subtiliser
31,326 corpus weight
- Sucy
Sucy
31,325 corpus weight
- Surcouf
Surcouf
31,323 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « subtiliser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subtiliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syp.ti.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « subtiliser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
subtiliser is uncommon French at frequency #68,675 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syp.ti.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
subtiliser has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is subtiliser, spelled S-U-B-T-I-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre subtil, volatiliser.
- 2Faire disparaître, dérober, voler.
- 3Mettre trop de finesse, d’ingéniosité dans une pensée, dans une expression, dans une action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how subtiliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Subtiliser une substance.
On dirait qu’une société secrète les subtilise les uns après les autres, – opina Bert.
This word in other languages
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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