subtilité
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,075
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
subtilité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Caractère de ce qui est subtil, aux divers sens du mot. Pronounced \syp.ti.li.te\. Often confused with subtilités and subtile.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subtilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syp.ti.li.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for subtilité is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \syp.ti.li.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,075 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for subtilité, with forms such as "sbutilité", "ssubtilité", and "subbtilité". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "subtilités", "subtile", 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 subtilité, spelled S-U-B-T-I-L-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est subtil, aux divers sens du mot.
- 2Distinctions ou raisonnements qui sont trop raffinés et qui échappent à l’intelligence.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sbutilité,ssubtilité,subbtilité,subitlité,subtiilté,subtilite,subtilitté,subtiliét,subtillité,subtiltié,subtliité,subttilité,sutbilité,usbtilité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "subtilité"
Frequency rank: #18,075 in French
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