sous-lieutenant
Letters
15 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
sous-lieutenant is aFrenchnoun. It means: Grade donné à un officier subalterne dans l’armée de terre, l’armée de l’air et la gendarmerie nationale de France, situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le lieutenant, et son subordonné, l’aspir... Pronounced \su.ljøt.nɑ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sous-lieutenant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.ljøt.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for sous-lieutenant is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \su.ljøt.nɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sous-lieutenant 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 sous-lieutenant, spelled S-O-U-S---L-I-E-U-T-E-N-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grade donné à un officier subalterne dans l’armée de terre, l’armée de l’air et la gendarmerie nationale de France, situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, le lieutenant, et son subordonné, l’aspirant. Ce grade correspond à celui d’enseigne de vaisseau de deuxième classe dans la Marine nationale française. Le code OTAN : OF-1.
- 2Grade d’officier des Forces armées canadiennes.
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