sous-secrétaire
\su.sə.kʁe.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“sous-secrétaire” 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 May 6, 2026) - Personne d’un rang hiérarchique immédiatement inférieur à celui d’un secrétaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sous-secretaire · sous-secrétaire · French
sous-secrétaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 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-secrétaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.sə.kʁe.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sous-secrétaire” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sous-secrétaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.sə.kʁe.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne d’un rang hiérarchique immédiatement inférieur à celui d’un secrétaire.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sous-secrétaire in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sous-secrétaire, spelled S-O-U-S---S-E-C-R-É-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Personne d’un rang hiérarchique immédiatement inférieur à celui d’un secrétaire.
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