soupière
\su.pjɛʁ\
The verdict
“soupière” is uncommon French (frequency #77,945 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,945
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Récipient large et profond, qui a ordinairement deux anses et dans lequel on sert la soupe, le potage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soupiere · soupière · French
soupière · rank #77,945 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,945
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souhaita
Nearest frequency peer: souhaita (-1 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 « soupière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soldent
soldent
22,059 corpus weight
- somali
somali
22,058 corpus weight
- souhaita
souhaita
22,057 corpus weight
- soupière
soupière
22,056 corpus weight
- sourira
sourira
22,055 corpus weight
- soussignés
soussignés
22,054 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soupière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soupière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.pjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soupière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soupière is uncommon French at frequency #77,945 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.pjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Récipient large et profond, qui a ordinairement deux anses et dans lequel on sert la soupe, le potage.".
soupière doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 soupière, spelled S-O-U-P-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Récipient large et profond, qui a ordinairement deux anses et dans lequel on sert la soupe, le potage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soupière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ameublement se composait d'une table boiteuse, de deux hamacs et d'une cuvette qui servait alternativement de soupière et de bain de pieds à tous les voyageurs.
Gaspard vit avec joie la femme poser une soupière fumante sur la table de la cuisine.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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