suppléante
\sy.ple.ɑ̃t\
The verdict
“suppléante” is uncommon French (frequency #53,649 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,649
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Représentante ; remplaçante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suppleante · suppléante · French
suppléante · rank #53,649 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,649
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH supportaient
Nearest frequency peer: supportaient (+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 « suppléante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sprite
sprite
46,356 corpus weight
- squelettiqu…
squelettiques
46,355 corpus weight
- stratifié
stratifié
46,354 corpus weight
- suppléante
suppléante
46,352 corpus weight
- supportaient
supportaient
46,351 corpus weight
- surnomment
surnomment
46,350 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suppléante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suppléante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.ple.ɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,649 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « suppléante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
suppléante is uncommon French at frequency #53,649 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.ple.ɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Représentante ; remplaçante.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for suppléante, 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is suppléante, spelled S-U-P-P-L-É-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Représentante ; remplaçante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how suppléante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On lui a nommé une suppléante.
Quel est le féminin de candidat aux cantonales ? C’est suppléante.
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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