heure supplémentaire
^((h muet))\œʁ sy.ple.mɑ̃.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“heure supplémentaire” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Heure de travail réalisée au-delà de la durée du travail normale dans l’entreprise.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heure supplémentaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\œʁ sy.ple.mɑ̃.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “heure supplémentaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for heure supplémentaire is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h muet))\œʁ sy.ple.mɑ̃.tɛʁ\. 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: "Heure de travail réalisée au-delà de la durée du travail normale dans l’entreprise.".
No misspelling variants are generated for heure supplémentaire 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 heure supplémentaire, spelled H-E-U-R-E- -S-U-P-P-L-É-M-E-N-T-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Heure de travail réalisée au-delà de la durée du travail normale dans l’entreprise.
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Using “heure supplémentaire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-E-U-R-E- -S-U-P-P-L-É-M-E-N-T-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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