sous-préfecture
\su.pʁe.fɛk.tyʁ\
The verdict
“sous-préfecture” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Portion de département qui renferme plusieurs cantons et qui est administrée par un sous-préfet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sous-prefecture · sous-préfecture · French
sous-préfecture · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 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-préfecture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.pʁe.fɛk.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sous-préfecture is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.pʁe.fɛk.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sous-préfecture, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sous-préfecture, spelled S-O-U-S---P-R-É-F-E-C-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Portion de département qui renferme plusieurs cantons et qui est administrée par un sous-préfet.
- 2Chef-lieu de la sous-préfecture.
- 3Demeure du sous-préfet, lieu où il a ses bureaux.
- 4Fonction de sous-préfet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sous-préfecture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En l'an VIII, le département du Gard fut partagé en quatre arrondissements de sous-préfectures: Alais, Nimes, Uzès et le Vigan.
Et ce petit univers grouille de cancans, d'intrigues, de projets, d'ambitions, qui dépassent rarement le cadre de la sous-préfecture. Vous croyez que la Chine existe, vous ? Comment peut-on être Chinois ?
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.