sot-l’y-laisse
\so.li.lɛs\
The verdict
“sot-l’y-laisse” 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) - Morceau très délicat qui se trouve au-dessus du croupion d’une volaille, sur l'ilium.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sot-l-y-laisse · sot-l’y-laisse · French
sot-l’y-laisse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 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 | sot-l’y-laisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \so.li.lɛs\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sot-l’y-laisse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \so.li.lɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Morceau très délicat qui se trouve au-dessus du croupion d’une volaille, sur l'ilium.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sot-l’y-laisse, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 sot-l’y-laisse, spelled S-O-T---L-’-Y---L-A-I-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Morceau très délicat qui se trouve au-dessus du croupion d’une volaille, sur l'ilium.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sot-l’y-laisse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon grand-père raffole des sot-l’y-laisse.
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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.