sobriété

/\sɔ.bʁi.je.te\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#17,564

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

sobriété is aFrenchnoun. It means: Caractère de celui qui est sobre, modéré dans le boire et le manger. Pronounced \sɔ.bʁi.je.te\. Often confused with société.

Key facts for sobriété
PropertyValue
Headwordsobriété
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɔ.bʁi.je.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#17,564
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sobriété in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sobriété is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔ.bʁi.je.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,564 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for sobriété, with forms such as "osbriété", "sboriété", and "sobbriété". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "société", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 sobriété, spelled S-O-B-R-I-É-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Caractère de celui qui est sobre, modéré dans le boire et le manger.
  2. 2
    Caractère de celui qui ne consomme pas de psychotrope, en particulier l’alcool.
  3. 3
    Caractère des animaux qui sont peu exigeants pour leur nourriture.
  4. 4
    Fait de vivre modestement, sans consommer plus que nécessaire, pour limiter sa consommation d’énergie et agir contre le réchauffement climatique.
  5. 5
    Réserve ; retenue ; modération.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osbriété,sboriété,sobbriété,sobirété,sobriete,sobritéé,sobriétté,sobriéét,sobrriété,sobréité,sorbiété,ssobriété

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sobriété

Misspelling Variants of "sobriété"

osbriété8sboriété8sobbriété9sobirété8sobriete8sobritéé8sobriétté9sobriéét8
Misspelling Variants of "sobriété"

Frequency rank: #17,564 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sobriété"?
"sobriété" is spelled S-O-B-R-I-É-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔ.bʁi.je.te\.
What does "sobriété" mean?
As a noun, "sobriété" means: Caractère de celui qui est sobre, modéré dans le boire et le manger.
What words are commonly confused with "sobriété"?
"sobriété" is commonly confused with "société". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sobriété"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sobriété" is \sɔ.bʁi.je.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sobriété" come from?
"sobriété" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.