sustainable
\səˈsteɪ.nə.bəl\
The verdict
“sustainable” is uncommon French (frequency #67,143 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,143
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soutenable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sustainable · sustainable · French
sustainable · rank #67,143 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,143
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surreprésenta…
Nearest frequency peer: surreprésentation (-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 « sustainable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surdouée
surdouée
32,861 corpus weight
- surnuméraire
surnuméraire
32,860 corpus weight
- surreprésen…
surreprésentation
32,859 corpus weight
- sustainable
sustainable
32,858 corpus weight
- swim
swim
32,857 corpus weight
- synchronisme
synchronisme
32,856 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sustainable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sustainable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \səˈsteɪ.nə.bəl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sustainable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sustainable is uncommon French at frequency #67,143 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \səˈsteɪ.nə.bəl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Soutenable.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sustainable, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sustainable, spelled S-U-S-T-A-I-N-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Soutenable.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).