soirée
\swa.ʁe\
The verdict
“soirée” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #832. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #832
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espace de temps depuis le déclin du jour jusqu’au moment où l’on se couche (par exemple entre 18 et 24 heures).
Corpus desk
Index FR-soiree · soirée · French
soirée · rank #832 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #832
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sept
Nearest frequency peer: sept (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “soirée”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- retrouver
retrouver
99,172 corpus weight
- sept
sept
99,170 corpus weight
- soirée
soirée
99,169 corpus weight
- sol
sol
99,168 corpus weight
- Sport
Sport
99,167 corpus weight
- téléphone
téléphone
99,166 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “soirée” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | soirée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \swa.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “soirée” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around soirée (IPA \swa.ʁe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #832 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for soirée, with forms such as "osirée", "siorée", and "soiree". 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, "sorte", "soirs", "Sorel", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is soirée, spelled S-O-I-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Espace de temps depuis le déclin du jour jusqu’au moment où l’on se couche (par exemple entre 18 et 24 heures).
- 2Fête, spectacle ou réunion que l’on organise à ce moment de la journée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soirée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par cette soirée glacée de décembre, Sylvine et Prosper se trouvaient seuls, avec Charlot, dans la grande cuisine de la ferme, elle cousant, lui en train de se fabriquer un beau fouet.
L'envie nous a pris de passer la soirée et la nuit dans un château.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osirée
- siorée
- soiree
- soireé
- soirrée
- soiére
- soriée
- ssoirée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soirée - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "soirée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "soirée". Here's where to go from here.
- "soirée" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "sorte". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #832 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "S" letter cohort. S–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.