soins
\swɛ̃\
The verdict
“soins” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,786. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,786
- 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 soin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soins · soins · French
soins · rank #1,786 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,786
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH rare
Nearest frequency peer: rare (-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 « soins »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- phase
phase
98,218 corpus weight
- publiques
publiques
98,217 corpus weight
- rare
rare
98,216 corpus weight
- soins
soins
98,215 corpus weight
- sois
sois
98,214 corpus weight
- supérieure
supérieure
98,213 corpus weight
What this shows « soins » 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 | soins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \swɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soins »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around soins (IPA \swɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,786 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de soin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for soins, with forms such as "osins", "sions", and "soinns". 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, "son", "SOS", "sont", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is soins, spelled S-O-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de soin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how soins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la campagne, les maisons très éloignées les unes des autres, et en général rudimentairement installées, rendent difficiles et souvent inefficaces les soins médicaux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osins
- sions
- soinns
- soinss
- soisn
- sonis
- ssoins
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soins - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "soins", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).