soignante
\swa.ɲɑ̃t\
The verdict
“soignante” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,016. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,016
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui dispense des soins aux malades.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soignante · soignante · French
soignante · rank #33,016 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,016
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Slimani
Nearest frequency peer: Slimani (-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 « soignante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sister
sister
66,989 corpus weight
- skills
skills
66,988 corpus weight
- Slimani
Slimani
66,986 corpus weight
- soignante
soignante
66,985 corpus weight
- Sommer
Sommer
66,984 corpus weight
- sopra
sopra
66,983 corpus weight
What this shows « soignante » 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 | soignante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \swa.ɲɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #33,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soignante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around soignante (IPA \swa.ɲɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,016 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celle qui dispense des soins aux malades.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for soignante, with forms such as "osignante", "siognante", and "soginante". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "soixante", "soignent", "soignants", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is soignante, spelled S-O-I-G-N-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui dispense des soins aux malades.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soignante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vie des soignantes est menacée parce que les équipements n’ont pas été faits pour elles.
La soignante de 37 ans, Carène Mezino, a été poignardée dans l’unité de médecine du travail de l’hôpital, située à côté du service de psychiatrie où était suivi l’homme soupçonné de l’avoir attaqué.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osignante
- siognante
- soginante
- soigannte
- soiggnante
- soignanet
- soignannte
- soignantte
- soignatne
- soignnante
- soignnate
- soingante
- ssoignante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soignante - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).