trempé comme une soupe
The verdict
“trempé comme une soupe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Qualifie une personne trempée, dégoulinante d’eau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trempé comme une soupe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃.pe kɔ.m‿yn sup\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trempé comme une soupe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for trempé comme une soupe is 22 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɑ̃.pe kɔ.m‿yn sup\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qualifie une personne trempée, dégoulinante d’eau.".
No misspelling variants are generated for trempé comme une soupe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 trempé comme une soupe, spelled T-R-E-M-P-É- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -S-O-U-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une personne trempée, dégoulinante d’eau.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-R-E-M-P-É- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -S-O-U-P-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁɑ̃.pe kɔ.m‿yn sup\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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