souteneur
\su.tnœʁ\
The verdict
“souteneur” is uncommon French (frequency #86,199 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,199
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui, vivant du gain d’un(e) prostitué(e), prétend assurer, en retour, sa protection.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souteneur · souteneur · French
souteneur · rank #86,199 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,199
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souffriraient
Nearest frequency peer: souffriraient (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « souteneur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sonnés
sonnés
13,805 corpus weight
- souffleurs
souffleurs
13,804 corpus weight
- souffriraie…
souffriraient
13,803 corpus weight
- souteneur
souteneur
13,802 corpus weight
- Staffordshi…
Staffordshire
13,800 corpus weight
- stagnant
stagnant
13,799 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « souteneur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | souteneur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.tnœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « souteneur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
souteneur is uncommon French at frequency #86,199 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.tnœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for souteneur, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is souteneur, spelled S-O-U-T-E-N-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui, vivant du gain d’un(e) prostitué(e), prétend assurer, en retour, sa protection.
- 2Personne qui soutient, qui supporte quelque chose.
- 3Supporter sportif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how souteneur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant aux autres membres du sacré collège Tonto, Lanfranco , Philonardo et quelques-uns de leurs collègues, ce serait pis encore si on leur demandait quelle profession ils exerçaient avant de passer cardinaux, l'un était sonneur d'orgues à l'Oratoire, […] ; le seigneur Philonardo était souteneur de filles dans un bordeau ; […].
Galliffet, le souteneur de sa femme, si célèbre par ses exhibitions éhontées dans les orgies du second Empire, […]
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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