sous-comite
\su.kɔ.mit\
The verdict
“sous-comite” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bas officier de galère qui remplissait, sous les ordres du comite, des fonctions analogues à celles de son supérieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sous-comite · sous-comite · French
sous-comite · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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-comite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.kɔ.mit\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sous-comite is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.kɔ.mit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bas officier de galère qui remplissait, sous les ordres du comite, des fonctions analogues à celles de son supérieur.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sous-comite in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sous-comite, spelled S-O-U-S---C-O-M-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Bas officier de galère qui remplissait, sous les ordres du comite, des fonctions analogues à celles de son supérieur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sous-comite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sous-comite de misaine. Sous-comite de proue. Deux sous-comites sont, l’un au milieu, l’autre près de la proue ; chacun d’eux, armé d’un fouet qu’il exerce sur le corps tout à fait nu des esclaves, est incessamment attentif aux ordres du comite.
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.