souffler à l’oreille
\su.fle a l‿ɔ.ʁɛj\
The verdict
“souffler à l’oreille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dire quelque chose secrètement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souffler-a-l-oreille · souffler à l’oreille · French
souffler à l’oreille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-8 8 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 | souffler à l’oreille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \su.fle a l‿ɔ.ʁɛj\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « souffler à l’oreille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
souffler à l’oreille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \su.fle a l‿ɔ.ʁɛj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for souffler à l’oreille in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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. The correct French form is souffler à l’oreille, spelled S-O-U-F-F-L-E-R- -À- -L-’-O-R-E-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Dire quelque chose secrètement.
- 2Informer quelqu’un d’un secret.
- 3Suggérer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how souffler à l’oreille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Il est fin prêt pour l’épectase, souffla Lambert à l’oreille d’Hélène.
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.