souple
French, adjective/supl/
souple is spelled S-O-U-P-L-E (6 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written French, the 9,981st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Souple is a French adjective meaning “supple” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est flexible, qui se plie aisément sans se rompre, sans s’abîmer”.
What does souple mean in English?
adjective
- 1
supple
- 2
yielding
- 3
flexible
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est flexible, qui se plie aisément sans se rompre, sans s’abîmer. 2. Se dit de la soie ayant subie une demi-cuisson. 3. Qualifie les personnes et les animaux qui ont une grande facilité à se mouvoir, à se plier. 4. Où se manifeste de l'aisance.
noun: 1. Ellipse de disque souple.
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 souple
- souples plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce souple?
- /supl/
- \supl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to souple
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is souple in French?
souple appears 5.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).