soulignées

\su.li.ɲe\

/\su.li.ɲe\/ verb

The verdict

“soulignées” is uncommon French (frequency #61,156 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,156
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin pluriel de souligner.

Corpus desk

Index FR-soulignees · soulignées · French

soulignées · rank #61,156 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #61,156
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH spiritus

Nearest frequency peer: spiritus (+2 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 « soulignées »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soulignées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for soulignées
PropertyValue
Headwordsoulignées
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\su.li.ɲe\
Letters10
Frequency rank#61,156
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « soulignées » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.soulignéestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « spiritus » (#61,158), « soldées » (#61,153), « solano » (#61,152). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soulignées » est au #61,156. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

soulignées is uncommon French at frequency #61,156 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \su.li.ɲe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin pluriel de souligner.".

soulignées doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is soulignées, spelled S-O-U-L-I-G-N-É-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé féminin pluriel de souligner.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how soulignées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le rapporteur belge en tire quelques tendances déjà connues de la Défense sociale, mais qui se sont trouvées soulignées au cours des travaux de Caracas : tendance à la déjuridicisation (le droit n’a de sens qu’en tant qu’instrument au service de l’action sociale), à la dédramatisation (la délinquance est un fait normal de la vie en collectivité, ce qu’oub…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "soulignées"?
"soulignées" is spelled S-O-U-L-I-G-N-É-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \su.li.ɲe\.
What does "soulignées" mean?
As a verb, "soulignées" means: Participe passé féminin pluriel de souligner.
How do you pronounce "soulignées"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soulignées" is \su.li.ɲe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soulignées" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "soulignées", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list