près de ses sous
\pʁɛ də se su\
The verdict
“près de ses sous” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Avare.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | près de ses sous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɛ də se su\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “près de ses sous” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for près de ses sous is 16 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɛ də se su\. 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: "Avare.".
près de ses sous doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is près de ses sous, spelled P-R-È-S- -D-E- -S-E-S- -S-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Avare.
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 “près de ses sous”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-È-S- -D-E- -S-E-S- -S-O-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pʁɛ də se su\ (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.