mèche soufrée
\mɛʃ su.fʁe\
The verdict
“mèche soufrée” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lanières de toile d'environ 2 à 3 cm de large, recouverte de soufre et à la quelle on met le feu, généralement dans un tonneau ; la combustion du soufre consomme l'oxygène et produit du dioxyde de ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mèche soufrée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛʃ su.fʁe\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mèche soufrée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mèche soufrée is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛʃ su.fʁe\. 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: "Lanières de toile d'environ 2 à 3 cm de large, recouverte de soufre et à la quelle on met le feu, généralement dans un tonneau ; la combustion du soufre consomme l'oxygène et produit du dioxyde de ...".
Zero misspellings are on record for mèche soufrée in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mèche soufrée, spelled M-È-C-H-E- -S-O-U-F-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Lanières de toile d'environ 2 à 3 cm de large, recouverte de soufre et à la quelle on met le feu, généralement dans un tonneau ; la combustion du soufre consomme l'oxygène et produit du dioxyde de soufre, l’ensemble permet une désinfection partielle de l’intérieur du tonneau.
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 “mèche soufrée”
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- The one correct French spelling is M-È-C-H-E- -S-O-U-F-R-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛʃ su.fʁe\ (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.