sous-ensemble
\su.z‿ɑ̃.sɑ̃bl\
The verdict
“sous-ensemble” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. 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) - Partie d’un ensemble.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sous-ensemble · sous-ensemble · French
sous-ensemble · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 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-ensemble |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.z‿ɑ̃.sɑ̃bl\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sous-ensemble is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.z‿ɑ̃.sɑ̃bl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
sous-ensemble has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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. The correct French form is sous-ensemble, spelled S-O-U-S---E-N-S-E-M-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Partie d’un ensemble.
- 2Langage de programmation hérité d’un autre langage dont il exclut un nombre plus ou moins important de fonctionnalités.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sous-ensemble appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En mathématiques, un ensemble A est un sous-ensemble ou une partie d’un ensemble B, ou encore B est un sur-ensemble de A, si tout élément du sous-ensemble A est aussi élément du sur-ensemble B.
Un ensemble s est un sous-ensemble de t si tous les éléments de s sont aussi dans t. Par exemple, l’ensemble {1} est un sous-ensemble de {1,2}.
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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.