maîtrise de soi
\mɛ.tʁiz də swa\
The verdict
“maîtrise de soi” 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) - Contrôle de soi-même.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maîtrise de soi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ.tʁiz də swa\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maîtrise de soi” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maîtrise de soi is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.tʁiz də swa\. 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: "Contrôle de soi-même.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for maîtrise de soi, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 maîtrise de soi, spelled M-A-Î-T-R-I-S-E- -D-E- -S-O-I.
Definition
- 1Contrôle de soi-même.
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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.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-Î-T-R-I-S-E- -D-E- -S-O-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛ.tʁiz də swa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.