haute société
^((h aspiré))\ot sɔ.sje.te\
The verdict
“haute société” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Classe sociale supérieure ; élite sociale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-haute-societe · haute société · French
haute société · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haute société |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ot sɔ.sje.te\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
haute société is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\ot sɔ.sje.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Classe sociale supérieure ; élite sociale.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for haute société, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is haute société, spelled H-A-U-T-E- -S-O-C-I-É-T-É.
Definition
- 1Classe sociale supérieure ; élite sociale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how haute société appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
(...) s'il n'est pas donné à tout le monde d'être de la haute société, il est permis à chacun de vouloir faire partie de la bonne compagnie.
Le Régent est un homme intelligent et qui a des qualités d’homme d’État, mais il est insouciant et ami des plaisirs. Subissant l’influence de son entourage de grands seigneurs libertins, il donne le ton à une haute société qui aspire à une rupture avec les mœurs austères imposées à la cour par Louis XIV vieillissant.
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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.