soucoupe volante
\su.kup vɔ.lɑ̃t\
The verdict
“soucoupe volante” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ovni dont la forme ronde et plate rappelle une soucoupe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soucoupe volante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.kup vɔ.lɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “soucoupe volante” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for soucoupe volante is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \su.kup vɔ.lɑ̃t\. 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: "Ovni dont la forme ronde et plate rappelle une soucoupe.".
No misspelling variants are generated for soucoupe volante 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 soucoupe volante, spelled S-O-U-C-O-U-P-E- -V-O-L-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ovni dont la forme ronde et plate rappelle une soucoupe.
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- The one correct French spelling is S-O-U-C-O-U-P-E- -V-O-L-A-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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