soutien-gorge
\su.tjɛ̃.ɡɔʁʒ\
The verdict
“soutien-gorge” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sous-vêtement féminin permettant de soutenir les seins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soutien-gorge · soutien-gorge · French
soutien-gorge · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 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 | soutien-gorge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.tjɛ̃.ɡɔʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
soutien-gorge is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.tjɛ̃.ɡɔʁʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sous-vêtement féminin permettant de soutenir les seins.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for soutien-gorge, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 soutien-gorge, spelled S-O-U-T-I-E-N---G-O-R-G-E.
Definition
- 1Sous-vêtement féminin permettant de soutenir les seins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soutien-gorge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour 1 500 yens on pouvait aussi acheter des faux soutiens-gorge de mousse pour gonfler son corsage à l'occidentale, et même des fausses fesses rembourrées en rilsan.
Le soutien-gorge, ce rêve. Ma mère ne songe pas à m’en acheter un, en paysanne elle n’en a jamais porté.
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.