sujétion

\sy.ʒe.sjɔ̃\

/\sy.ʒe.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“sujétion” is uncommon French (frequency #75,267 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#75,267
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dépendance, état de celui qui est soumis à un pouvoir, à une domination.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sujetion · sujétion · French

sujétion · rank #75,267 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #75,267
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH suggérez

Nearest frequency peer: suggérez (-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 « sujétion »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sujétion » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sujétion
PropertyValue
Headwordsujétion
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sy.ʒe.sjɔ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#75,267
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « sujétion » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.sujétiontombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « suggérez » (#75,266), « sultane » (#75,268), « suge » (#75,265). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sujétion » est au #75,267. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sujétion is uncommon French at frequency #75,267 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.ʒe.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sujétion, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sujétion, spelled S-U-J-É-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dépendance, état de celui qui est soumis à un pouvoir, à une domination.
  2. 2
    État de celui qui est astreint à quelque nécessité, obligé à quelque chose.
  3. 3
    Nécessité où l’on est de ne pas s’éloigner d’un endroit, de ne pas quitter une personne.
  4. 4
    Assiduité que demande une charge, un emploi.
  5. 5
    État de ce qui est sujet à servitude.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sujétion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Vivre, tenir, dans la sujétion.
  2. S’affranchir de la sujétion, demeurer dans la sujétion qu’on doit aux lois.

This word in other languages

subjection(English)Abhängigkeit(Deutsch)sujeição(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sujétion"?
"sujétion" is spelled S-U-J-É-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \sy.ʒe.sjɔ̃\.
What does "sujétion" mean?
As a noun, "sujétion" means: Dépendance, état de celui qui est soumis à un pouvoir, à une domination.
How do you pronounce "sujétion"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sujétion" is \sy.ʒe.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sujétion" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sujétion", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

suggérez#75,266stipuler#75,258sourcier#75,247tatillon#75,288

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list