soupe aux pois
The verdict
“soupe aux pois” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Soupe faite principalement de pois secs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soupe aux pois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.p‿o pwɑ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “soupe aux pois” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for soupe aux pois is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \su.p‿o pwɑ\. 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: "Soupe faite principalement de pois secs.".
No misspelling variants are generated for soupe aux pois 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 soupe aux pois, spelled S-O-U-P-E- -A-U-X- -P-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Soupe faite principalement de pois secs.
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Using “soupe aux pois”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-O-U-P-E- -A-U-X- -P-O-I-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \su.p‿o pwɑ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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