soubrette
\su.bʁɛt\
The verdict
“soubrette” is uncommon French (frequency #56,935 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,935
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom que l’on donne, au théâtre, aux servantes ou suivantes de comédie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soubrette · soubrette · French
soubrette · rank #56,935 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,935
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sopranos
Nearest frequency peer: sopranos (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « soubrette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soa
soa
43,070 corpus weight
- Sollers
Sollers
43,069 corpus weight
- sopranos
sopranos
43,067 corpus weight
- soubrette
soubrette
43,066 corpus weight
- souhaiteriez
souhaiteriez
43,065 corpus weight
- souhaitions
souhaitions
43,064 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soubrette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soubrette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.bʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soubrette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soubrette is uncommon French at frequency #56,935 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.bʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
soubrette has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is soubrette, spelled S-O-U-B-R-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom que l’on donne, au théâtre, aux servantes ou suivantes de comédie.
- 2ou Servante ou jeune femme de chambre accorte ou avenante et délurée.
- 3Personne (sans distinction de genre) à la tenue de servante volontairement affriolante dans les milieux BDSM et fétichistes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soubrette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rôle, emploi de soubrette, jouer les soubrettes, une soubrette de Molière.
D’escale en escale, le pont se peuplait : il y montait des mères de famille allemandes, suivies de deux ou trois fillettes et d’une Gretchen naïve, n’ayant pas l’air dame de la femme de chambre anglaise, encore moins l’air soubrette de la femme de chambre française, mais rappelant le type de Marguerite dans les illustrations de Reschz.
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); 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).