soap opera
\so.p‿o.pe.ʁa\
The verdict
“soap opera” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de feuilleton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soap-opera · soap opera · French
soap opera · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « soap opera » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soap opera is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \so.p‿o.pe.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.