sous-titre
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
sous-titre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Titre secondaire qui est ordinairement placé sous le titre principal d’un livre. Pronounced \su.titʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sous-titre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.titʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sous-titre is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \su.titʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sous-titre in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sous-titre, spelled S-O-U-S---T-I-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Titre secondaire qui est ordinairement placé sous le titre principal d’un livre.
- 2Texte donnant par écrit sur l’écran les paroles d’un film ou d’un programme télévisé, soit pour traduire dans une autre langue ce qui est dit, soit pour le rendre accessible à ceux qui ne sont pas en situation d'entendre la bande sonore.
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