saoul

\su\

/\su\/ adj

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The verdict

“saoul” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,755. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,755
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ivre, aviné.

Corpus desk

Index FR-saoul · saoul · French

saoul · rank #15,755 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,755
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH samedis

Nearest frequency peer: samedis (-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 « saoul »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « saoul » 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).

saoul vs sol
60% similar
saoul vs sou
60% similar
saoul vs sul
60% similar

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

Key facts for saoul
PropertyValue
Headwordsaoul
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\su\
Letters5
Frequency rank#15,755
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « saoul »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « samedis » (#15,754), « saturation » (#15,756), « savourer » (#15,757). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « saoul » est au #15,755. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around saoul (IPA \su\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,755 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for saoul, with forms such as "asoul", "saolu", and "saoull". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sol", "sou", "sul", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is saoul, spelled S-A-O-U-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ivre, aviné.
  2. 2
    Qui est las, dégoûté de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose.
  3. 3
    Repus.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il avait dit qu'il ne boirait pas hier soir, pourtant il a fini complètement saoul.
  2. À cet instant, la porte de la rue s’ouvrit et un homme encore jeune, visiblement saoul, entra.

This word in other languages

tipsy(English)borracho(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asoul
  • saolu
  • saoull
  • sauol
  • soaul
  • ssaoul

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saoul - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

asoul2saolu2saoull1sauol2soaul2ssaoul1
Edit distance from "saoul"

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 "saoul"?
"saoul" is spelled S-A-O-U-L. The IPA pronunciation is \su\.
What does "saoul" mean?
As an adjective, "saoul" means: Ivre, aviné.
What words are commonly confused with "saoul"?
"saoul" is commonly confused with "sol", "sou", "sul". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "saoul"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "saoul" is \su\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "saoul" come from?
"saoul" 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 "saoul", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list