sous-alimenté
\su.z‿a.li.mɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“sous-alimenté” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Victime de la sous-alimentation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sous-alimente · sous-alimenté · French
sous-alimenté · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sous-alimenté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \su.z‿a.li.mɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sous-alimenté is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \su.z‿a.li.mɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Victime de la sous-alimentation.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sous-alimenté, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sous-alimenté, spelled S-O-U-S---A-L-I-M-E-N-T-É.
Definition
- 1Victime de la sous-alimentation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sous-alimenté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La moitié de la population kabyle est en chômage et les trois quarts sont sous-alimentés.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.