société mère

/\so.sje.te mɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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Confusables

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société mère is aFrenchnoun. It means: Siège principal d’une société détenant des filiales. Pronounced \so.sje.te mɛʁ\.

Key facts for société mère
PropertyValue
Headwordsociété mère
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\so.sje.te mɛʁ\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

société mère is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for société mère is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \so.sje.te mɛʁ\. 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: "Siège principal d’une société détenant des filiales.".

No misspelling variants are generated for société mère in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 société mère, spelled S-O-C-I-É-T-É- -M-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Siège principal d’une société détenant des filiales.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "société mère"?
"société mère" is spelled S-O-C-I-É-T-É- -M-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \so.sje.te mɛʁ\.
What does "société mère" mean?
As a noun, "société mère" means: Siège principal d’une société détenant des filiales.
How do you pronounce "société mère"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "société mère" is \so.sje.te mɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "société mère" come from?
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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.