souillure
French, noun/su.jyʁ/
souillure is spelled S-O-U-I-L-L-U-R-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 57,169th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Souillure is a French feminine noun meaning “stain, taint, blemish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tache, saleté sur quelque chose. – Note d’usage : Il ne s’emploie guère qu’au figuré”.
What does souillure mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininestain, taint, blemish
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tache, saleté sur quelque chose. – Note d’usage : Il ne s’emploie guère qu’au figuré.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of souillure
- souillures plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce souillure?
- /su.jyʁ/
- \su.jyʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to souillure
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is souillure in French?
souillure appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).