succombent
\sy.kɔ̃b\
The verdict
“succombent” is uncommon French (frequency #61,918 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,918
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de succomber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-succombent · succombent · French
succombent · rank #61,918 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,918
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH substituée
Nearest frequency peer: substituée (-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 « succombent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- subsahariens
subsahariens
38,085 corpus weight
- substituée
substituée
38,084 corpus weight
- succombent
succombent
38,083 corpus weight
- sudation
sudation
38,082 corpus weight
- suffocation
suffocation
38,081 corpus weight
- summary
summary
38,080 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « succombent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | succombent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sy.kɔ̃b\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « succombent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
succombent is uncommon French at frequency #61,918 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sy.kɔ̃b\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for succombent in our index, 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 its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is succombent, spelled S-U-C-C-O-M-B-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de succomber.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de succomber.
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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