cadres supérieurs

/\kadʁ sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“cadres supérieurs” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
17
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pluriel de cadre supérieur.

Key facts for cadres supérieurs
PropertyValue
Headwordcadres supérieurs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kadʁ sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “cadres supérieurs” sits in French frequency

cadres supérieurs falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cadres supérieurs is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kadʁ sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de cadre supérieur.".

No misspelling variants are generated for cadres supérieurs in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 cadres supérieurs, spelled C-A-D-R-E-S- -S-U-P-É-R-I-E-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de cadre supérieur.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cadres supérieurs"?
"cadres supérieurs" is spelled C-A-D-R-E-S- -S-U-P-É-R-I-E-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kadʁ sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\.
What does "cadres supérieurs" mean?
As a noun, "cadres supérieurs" means: Pluriel de cadre supérieur.
How do you pronounce "cadres supérieurs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cadres supérieurs" is \kadʁ sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “cadres supérieurs”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-A-D-R-E-S- -S-U-P-É-R-I-E-U-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kadʁ sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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