sœur de lait
\sœʁ də lɛ\
The verdict
“sœur de lait” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Celle avec laquelle on a partagé le sein maternel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sœur de lait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sœʁ də lɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sœur de lait” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sœur de lait is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sœʁ də lɛ\. 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: "Celle avec laquelle on a partagé le sein maternel.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sœur de lait 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 sœur de lait, spelled S-Œ-U-R- -D-E- -L-A-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celle avec laquelle on a partagé le sein maternel.
This word in other languages
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 “sœur de lait”
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- The one correct French spelling is S-Œ-U-R- -D-E- -L-A-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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