sœurs

\sœʁ\

/\sœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“sœurs” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,383. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,383
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sœur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-s-urs · sœurs · French

sœurs · rank #4,383 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,383
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH survie

Nearest frequency peer: survie (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « sœurs »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sœurs » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sœurs vs sur
60% similar
sœurs vs sus
60% similar
sœurs vs suis
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sœurs
PropertyValue
Headwordsœurs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sœʁ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,383
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sœurs »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).sœursse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « survie » (#4,382), « taxi » (#4,384), « suffisant » (#4,381). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sœurs » est au #4,383. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around sœurs (IPA \sœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,383 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de sœur.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for sœurs, with forms such as "ssœurs", "suœrs", and "sœrus". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sur", "sus", "suis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 sœurs, spelled S-Œ-U-R-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de sœur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sœurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le même geste drape les quatre sœurs, le même sourire et la même coiffure les raphaélisent — hélas! — et j’irai même jusqu’à dire que le petit amour est leur frère Benjamin…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ssœurs
  • suœrs
  • sœrus
  • sœurrs
  • sœurss
  • sœusr
  • œsurs

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sœurs - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ssœurs1suœrs2sœrus2sœurrs1sœurss1sœusr2œsurs2
Edit distance from "sœurs"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sœurs"?
"sœurs" is spelled S-Œ-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sœʁ\.
What does "sœurs" mean?
As a noun, "sœurs" means: Pluriel de sœur.
What words are commonly confused with "sœurs"?
"sœurs" is commonly confused with "sur", "sus", "suis". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sœurs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sœurs" is \sœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sœurs" come from?
"sœurs" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sœurs", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

trait#4,386Scott#4,376élite#4,393remet#4,370

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

recul7 variantscannes7 variantschair7 variantsmince7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list