sous-officier
\su.zɔ.fi.sje\
The verdict
“sous-officier” 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 May 6, 2026) - Militaire d’un grade inférieur à celui d’officier (le grade le plus bas est aspirant) et supérieur à celui de soldat (le grade le plus haut est caporal-chef).
Corpus desk
Index FR-sous-officier · sous-officier · French
sous-officier · 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-officier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.zɔ.fi.sje\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sous-officier” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sous-officier is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.zɔ.fi.sje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Militaire d’un grade inférieur à celui d’officier (le grade le plus bas est aspirant) et supérieur à celui de soldat (le grade le plus haut est caporal-chef).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sous-officier in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sous-officier, spelled S-O-U-S---O-F-F-I-C-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Militaire d’un grade inférieur à celui d’officier (le grade le plus bas est aspirant) et supérieur à celui de soldat (le grade le plus haut est caporal-chef).
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