sustenter
\sys.tɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“sustenter” is uncommon French (frequency #77,972 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,972
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nourrir, soutenir les forces (en particulier par le moyen des aliments).
Corpus desk
Index FR-sustenter · sustenter · French
sustenter · rank #77,972 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,972
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surélevés
Nearest frequency peer: surélevés (-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 « sustenter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sursauta
sursauta
22,032 corpus weight
- surviendra
surviendra
22,031 corpus weight
- surélevés
surélevés
22,030 corpus weight
- sustenter
sustenter
22,029 corpus weight
- swaps
swaps
22,028 corpus weight
- sympatoche
sympatoche
22,026 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sustenter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sustenter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sys.tɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sustenter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sustenter is uncommon French at frequency #77,972 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sys.tɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sustenter, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sustenter, spelled S-U-S-T-E-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nourrir, soutenir les forces (en particulier par le moyen des aliments).
- 2Se nourrir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sustenter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Remarquons ici que beaucoup de praticiens célèbres se sont conformés à la pratique ancienne, et sustentaient leurs malades avec une décoction assez rapprochée d'orge, de gruau , etc. […]
Naguère encore, tu étais la chair à travail, la bonne vache nourricière qui sustente du meilleur d’elle-même la troupe des privilégiés.
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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