heures supplémentaires
^((h muet))\œʁ sy.ple.mɑ̃.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“heures supplémentaires” 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
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Heures de travail effectif réalisées par un salarié à temps complet au-delà de la durée du travail qui est normale dans l’entreprise.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heures supplémentaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\œʁ sy.ple.mɑ̃.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “heures supplémentaires” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for heures supplémentaires is 22 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: "Heures de travail effectif réalisées par un salarié à temps complet au-delà de la durée du travail qui est normale dans l’entreprise.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for heures supplémentaires, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 heures supplémentaires, spelled H-E-U-R-E-S- -S-U-P-P-L-É-M-E-N-T-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Heures de travail effectif réalisées par un salarié à temps complet au-delà de la durée du travail qui est normale dans l’entreprise.
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- The one correct French spelling is H-E-U-R-E-S- -S-U-P-P-L-É-M-E-N-T-A-I-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.