sunt
The verdict
“sunt” is uncommon French (frequency #70,243 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,243
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de sum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sunt · sunt · French
sunt · rank #70,243 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,243
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH subterfuges
Nearest frequency peer: subterfuges (-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 « sunt »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- subdivisé
subdivisé
29,761 corpus weight
- subsistances
subsistances
29,760 corpus weight
- subterfuges
subterfuges
29,759 corpus weight
- sunt
sunt
29,758 corpus weight
- superposant
superposant
29,757 corpus weight
- superpositi…
superpositions
29,756 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sunt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sunt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #70,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sunt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sunt is uncommon French at frequency #70,243 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de sum.".
sunt has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 sunt, spelled S-U-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de sum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sunt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sint, ut sunt, aut non sint.
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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