société civile
\sɔ.sje.te si.vil\
The verdict
“société civile” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Société non commerciale soumise au droit civil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-societe-civile · société civile · French
société civile · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | société civile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.sje.te si.vil\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
société civile is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.sje.te si.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
société civile has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is société civile, spelled S-O-C-I-É-T-É- -C-I-V-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Société non commerciale soumise au droit civil.
- 2Ensemble des acteurs économiques et politiques d’une nation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how société civile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les efforts se déploient surtout dans le domaine caritatif et s’accompagnent d’une recatholicisation en profondeur des pauvres secourus, l’objectif étant d’aller au peuple pour rétablir la suprématie de l’Église catholique sur la société civile.
Elle considéra les revendications de la société civile urbaine en faveur d’une démocratie représentative pluripartite, exigence confortée par un grand nombre de donateurs occidentaux, comme une menace […]
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.