souveraineté
French, noun/su.vʁɛn.te/
souveraineté is spelled S-O-U-V-E-R-A-I-N-E-T-É (12 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written French, the 4,416th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Souveraineté is a French feminine noun meaning “sovereignty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Autorité suprême”.
What does souveraineté mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesovereignty
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Autorité suprême. 2. Qualité et autorité d’un prince. 3. Principauté, royaume, etc. 4. Droit absolu qu’a tout peuple indépendant de régler ses propres affaires sans en devoir aucun compte à quelque autre peuple que ce soit.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of souveraineté
- souverainetés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce souveraineté?
- /su.vʁɛn.te/
- \su.vʁɛn.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to souveraineté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is souveraineté in French?
souveraineté appears 17 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).