souplesse
French, noun/su.plɛs/
souplesse is spelled S-O-U-P-L-E-S-S-E (9 letters) and appears 4.7 times per million words in written French, the 11,729th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Souplesse is a French feminine noun meaning “suppleness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qualité de ce qui est souple, de ce qui se plie aisément”.
What does souplesse mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesuppleness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Qualité de ce qui est souple, de ce qui se plie aisément. 2. Flexibilité. 3. Renversement du corps vers l’avant ou vers l’arrière terminant en position verticale après un passage en pont. 4. Qualité d'esprit, de style, de voix, etc., qui est 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 souplesse
- souplesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce souplesse?
- /su.plɛs/
- \su.plɛs\
- [la su.plɛs]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to souplesse
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is souplesse in French?
souplesse appears 4.7 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).