soubassement

Name: soubassement, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\su.bas.mɑ̃\

/\su.bas.mɑ̃\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“soubassement” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,047. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,047
frequency rank, French: 6,032
“S” headwords: 16
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie inférieure d’une construction sur laquelle porte l’édifice et qui porte elle-même sur les fondations.

Corpus desk

Index FR-soubassement · soubassement · French

soubassement · rank #39,047 · 16 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-MID #39,047
LEN-MEGA 12 letters
VOW-5 5 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-HIGH 16 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,032
PHOTO-FINISH sophistication

Nearest frequency peer: sophistication (-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.

soies

60,957
sollicitent

60,956
sophisticat…

60,955
soubassement

60,954
souscripteur

60,953
spartiate

60,952

What this shows « soubassement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Key facts for soubassement
Property	Value
Headword	soubassement
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\su.bas.mɑ̃\
Letters	12
Frequency rank	#39,047
Misspellings tracked	16
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soubassement »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.soubassementse place ici:

#39,047

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sophistication » (#39,046), « souscripteur » (#39,048), « sollicitent » (#39,045). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soubassement » est au #39,047. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around soubassement (IPA \su.bas.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,047 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for soubassement, with forms such as "osubassement", "sobuassement", and "souabssement". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is soubassement, spelled S-O-U-B-A-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

1
Partie inférieure d’une construction sur laquelle porte l’édifice et qui porte elle-même sur les fondations.
2
Socle rocheux sur lequel reposent les couches de terrain.
3
Base, fondement, socle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

Ce soubassement est intact, […], les parties inférieures du monument sont restées enterrées pendant des siècles et ont été ainsi préservées des mutilations.
L'autre porte en bois, vermoulue, disjointe, s'encastrait dans les soubassements de cette partie de l'hôtel et ouvrait sur un escalier aboutissant à une cave où l'on avait entassé toutes sortes de vieux meubles inutiles.

This word in other languages

underpinning(English)basamento(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

osubassement
sobuassement
souabssement
soubasement
soubasesment
soubasseemnt
soubassemennt
soubassementt
soubassemetn
soubassemment
soubassemnet
soubassmeent
soubbassement
soubsasement
ssoubassement
suobassement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soubassement - 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.

Edit distance from "soubassement"

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 "soubassement"?

"soubassement" is spelled S-O-U-B-A-S-S-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \su.bas.mɑ̃\.

What does "soubassement" mean?

As a noun, "soubassement" means: Partie inférieure d’une construction sur laquelle porte l’édifice et qui porte elle-même sur les fondations.

What are common misspellings of "soubassement"?

Common misspellings include "osubassement", "sobuassement", "souabssement", "soubasement", "soubasesment". The correct spelling is "soubassement".

How do you pronounce "soubassement"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soubassement" is \su.bas.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "soubassement" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "soubassement", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

souscripteur#39,048 terminaisons#39,067 récompensant#39,025 trentenaires#39,075

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

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