très saint-père
\tʁe sɛ̃ pɛʁ\
The verdict
“très saint-père” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le pape de l'Église catholique romaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tres-saint-pere · très saint-père · French
très saint-père · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" 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 | très saint-père |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁe sɛ̃ pɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
très saint-père is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁe sɛ̃ pɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Le pape de l'Église catholique romaine.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for très saint-père, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is très saint-père, spelled T-R-È-S- -S-A-I-N-T---P-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Le pape de l'Église catholique romaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how très saint-père appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En parlant du Pape, on l’appelle Le Saint Père, notre Saint Père, notre Très-Saint Père, et notre Saint Père le Pape. On l’appelle aussi, Le Père des fidèles.
Synonyms
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.