frères et sœurs
\fʁɛ.ʁ‿e sœʁ\
The verdict
“frères et sœurs” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Les frères et les sœurs d’une personne, en sachant qu’il y a au moins un frère et au moins une sœur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frères et sœurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɛ.ʁ‿e sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “frères et sœurs” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for frères et sœurs is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɛ.ʁ‿e sœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for frères et sœurs, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is frères et sœurs, spelled F-R-È-R-E-S- -E-T- -S-Œ-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Les frères et les sœurs d’une personne, en sachant qu’il y a au moins un frère et au moins une sœur.
- 2Des frères et des sœurs d’une personne, dans un contexte interrogatif, négatif ou inconnu.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “frères et sœurs”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-R-È-R-E-S- -E-T- -S-Œ-U-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fʁɛ.ʁ‿e sœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.