souricière
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#61,906
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
souricière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Piège pour prendre des souris. La souricière prend généralement la forme d'une pince qui se rabat sur la souris pour la tuer ou d'une cage dans laquelle la souris peut entrer, mais pas sortir. Pronounced \su.ʁi.sjɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | souricière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.ʁi.sjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for souricière is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \su.ʁi.sjɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #61,906 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for souricière in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 souricière, spelled S-O-U-R-I-C-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Piège pour prendre des souris. La souricière prend généralement la forme d'une pince qui se rabat sur la souris pour la tuer ou d'une cage dans laquelle la souris peut entrer, mais pas sortir.
- 2Piège que l’on tend à ses adversaires, à ses ennemis, dans un endroit où on les attire, où l’on pense qu’ils ne peuvent manquer de venir se faire prendre.
- 3Lieu de passage dont la configuration évoque une souricière, c'est-à-dire une sorte de tunnel.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #61,906 in French
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