soubergue
\su.bɛʁg\
The verdict
“soubergue” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coteau dans le Languedoc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soubergue · soubergue · French
soubergue · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | soubergue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.bɛʁg\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soubergue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soubergue is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.bɛʁg\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Coteau dans le Languedoc.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for soubergue, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is soubergue, spelled S-O-U-B-E-R-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Coteau dans le Languedoc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soubergue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
les terres calcaires sont plus ou moins pierreuses et ocreuses ; elles occupent principalement les coteaux ou soubergues.
Elle [une voie romaine] a une largeur très-inégale ; dans le soubergue ou coteau, elle varie depuis six jusqu'à douze toises, mais elle est plus uniforme dans la plaine, où elle se tient constamment entre deux et trois toises.
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.