sous-ordre
\su.z‿ɔʁdʁ\
The verdict
“sous-ordre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. 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) - Procédure par laquelle les créanciers d’un débiteur, lui-même créancier dans une procédure d’ordre, prennent sa place et se partagent le montant de ce qui lui revient.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sous-ordre · sous-ordre · French
sous-ordre · 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-ordre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.z‿ɔʁdʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sous-ordre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sous-ordre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.z‿ɔʁdʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sous-ordre, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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-ordre, spelled S-O-U-S---O-R-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Procédure par laquelle les créanciers d’un débiteur, lui-même créancier dans une procédure d’ordre, prennent sa place et se partagent le montant de ce qui lui revient.
- 2Ordre pris en second.
- 3Celui qui est soumis aux ordres d’un autre, ou qui travaille sous lui à une affaire quelconque.
- 4Niveau intermédiaire de la classification des êtres vivants, situé entre l’ordre et l’infra-ordre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sous-ordre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Créanciers en sous-ordre.
Prendre des travaux en sous-ordre.
This word in other languages
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.