souffreteux
\su.fʁə.tø\
The verdict
“souffreteux” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est de santé délicate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souffreteux · souffreteux · French
souffreteux · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 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 | souffreteux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \su.fʁə.tø\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
souffreteux is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \su.fʁə.tø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est de santé délicate.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for souffreteux, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 souffreteux, spelled S-O-U-F-F-R-E-T-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est de santé délicate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how souffreteux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais ce ne sont point ces pages souffreteuses, humble labeur ignoré des jours présents, qui ajouteront quelque lustre à la renommée poétique des jours passés.
Pas d’arbres, sauf dans les creux, sur les pentes un peu douces, les rangées souffreteuses d’amandiers et d’oliviers. Cela produit pourtant et malgré les chances de gelée. Un hectare moyen d’oliviers vaut cinq mille francs.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.