soupirer
\su.pi.ʁe\
The verdict
“soupirer” is uncommon French (frequency #52,363 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,363
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pousser des soupirs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soupirer · soupirer · French
soupirer · rank #52,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,363
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soupers
Nearest frequency peer: soupers (-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 « soupirer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soufisme
soufisme
47,641 corpus weight
- soupers
soupers
47,639 corpus weight
- soupirer
soupirer
47,638 corpus weight
- spectromètre
spectromètre
47,637 corpus weight
- spécialisat…
spécialisations
47,636 corpus weight
- standardisée
standardisée
47,635 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soupirer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soupirer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \su.pi.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soupirer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soupirer is uncommon French at frequency #52,363 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \su.pi.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for soupirer in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is soupirer, spelled S-O-U-P-I-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pousser des soupirs.
- 2Désirer ardemment ; rechercher avec passion.
- 3Il s’emploie dans le même sens, avec la préposition « pour ».
- 4Il est quelquefois transitif au figuré. (Il n’est d’usage ainsi qu’en poésie.)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soupirer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle soupira en souriant, me jeta un regard de détresse qui signifiait : « Dieu ! que les hommes sont bêtes ! » […].
Il contempla son verre où la lumière de la lampe se réfractait et soupira : — Nul n'y peut rien!
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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