soeur
\sœʁ\
The verdict
“soeur” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,151. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,151
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante par contrainte typographique de sœur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soeur · soeur · French
soeur · rank #2,151 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,151
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salaire
Nearest frequency peer: salaire (-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 « soeur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réalisation
réalisation
97,853 corpus weight
- réponses
réponses
97,852 corpus weight
- salaire
salaire
97,851 corpus weight
- soeur
soeur
97,850 corpus weight
- toucher
toucher
97,849 corpus weight
- traduction
traduction
97,848 corpus weight
What this shows « soeur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Typographic variant |
| IPA | \sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soeur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around soeur (IPA \sœʁ\), atypographic variant. Corpus frequency is #2,151 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante par contrainte typographique de sœur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for soeur, with forms such as "oseur", "seour", and "soeru". 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, "sur", "sou", "sous", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is soeur, spelled S-O-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Variante par contrainte typographique de sœur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oseur
- seour
- soeru
- soeurr
- souer
- ssoeur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soeur - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "soeur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).