società
\so.t͡ʃe.ˈta\
The verdict
“società” is uncommon French (frequency #81,586 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,586
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Société, assemblage d’hommes qui sont unis par la nature ou par des lois ; commerce que les hommes réunis ont naturellement les uns avec les autres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | società |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \so.t͡ʃe.ˈta\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “società” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
società is uncommon French at frequency #81,586 among 394,209 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \so.t͡ʃe.ˈta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for società in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is società, spelled S-O-C-I-E-T-À.
Definition
- 1Société, assemblage d’hommes qui sont unis par la nature ou par des lois ; commerce que les hommes réunis ont naturellement les uns avec les autres.
- 2Société, Réunion de plusieurs personnes associées pour quelque intérêt, pour quelque affaire et sous certaines conditions.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “società”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-O-C-I-E-T-À - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \so.t͡ʃe.ˈta\ (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.