sous-marin
The verdict
“sous-marin” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est au fond de la mer ; qui est sous les flots de la mer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sous-marin · sous-marin · French
sous-marin · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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-marin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sous-marin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sous-marin is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sous-marin, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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-marin, spelled S-O-U-S---M-A-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qui est au fond de la mer ; qui est sous les flots de la mer.
- 2Qualifie la navigation au-dessous de la surface de la mer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sous-marin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce bouillonnement provenait d’une source sous-marine de naphte, et il a suffi de ce fragment de cigare pour l’enflammer.
Les îles Féroë sont entièrement d’origine volcanique : elles ont surgi de toutes pièces du sein d’Amphitrite et sont, comme l’Islande, constituées de trapp de formation sous-marine.
Synonyms
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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.