transsubstantiation
Letters
19 characters
Frequency Rank
#97,499
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
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transsubstantiation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Changement d’une substance en une autre. Pronounced \tʁɑ̃s.syp.stɑ̃.sja.sjɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | transsubstantiation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃s.syp.stɑ̃.sja.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Frequency rank | #97,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for transsubstantiation is 19 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɑ̃s.syp.stɑ̃.sja.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #97,499 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for transsubstantiation in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is transsubstantiation, spelled T-R-A-N-S-S-U-B-S-T-A-N-T-I-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Changement d’une substance en une autre.
- 2Nom donné par Vetter et Burdach au cas dans lequel les parties constituantes d’un tissu, ayant été résorbées, sont remplacées par des éléments d’une autre espèce qui se substituent à lui, ce qu’on appelle habituellement transformation.
- 3Transfert mental par lequel une chose banale devient exceptionnelle, consacrée, digne de culte, divine.
- 4Changement miraculeux de la substance du pain et du vin en la substance du corps et du sang de Jésus-Christ dans l’eucharistie.
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Frequency rank: #97,499 in French
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