soap opera
\so.p‿o.pe.ʁa\
The verdict
“soap opera” 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
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Synonyme de feuilleton.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soap opera |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \so.p‿o.pe.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “soap opera” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for soap opera is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \so.p‿o.pe.ʁa\. 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: "Synonyme de feuilleton.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for soap opera, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is soap opera, spelled S-O-A-P- -O-P-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de feuilleton.
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 “soap opera”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-O-A-P- -O-P-E-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \so.p‿o.pe.ʁa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.