souche

\suʃ\

/\suʃ\/ noun

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The verdict

“souche” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,392. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,392
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie basse du tronc d’un arbre qui reste en terre quand l’arbre a été coupé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-souche · souche · French

souche · rank #9,392 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,392
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH simulation

Nearest frequency peer: simulation (-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 « souche »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

souche vs such
67% similar
souche vs sucé
50% similar
souche vs souci
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for souche
PropertyValue
Headwordsouche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\suʃ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#9,392
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « souche »

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

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « simulation » (#9,391), « strict » (#9,393), « sers » (#9,390). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « souche » est au #9,392. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around souche (IPA \suʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,392 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 16 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for souche, with forms such as "osuche", "socuhe", and "soucche". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "such", "sucé", "souci", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is souche, spelled S-O-U-C-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie basse du tronc d’un arbre qui reste en terre quand l’arbre a été coupé.
  2. 2
    Partie basse du tronc d’un arbre qui reste en terre quand l’arbre a été coupé.
  3. 3
    Partie basse du tronc d’un arbre qui reste en terre quand l’arbre a été coupé.
  4. 4
    Bûche, exprime l’immobilité, l’inertie.
  5. 5
    Bûche, exprime l’immobilité, l’inertie.
  6. 6
    La partie la plus longue d’une taille de comptabilité.
  7. 7
    Partie qui reste des feuilles d’un registre, lorsqu’on les a coupées, et qui sert à vérifier l’authenticité de la partie détachée.
  8. 8
    Ticket mentionnant les données d’un achat.
  9. 9
    Base d’un élément de construction.
  10. 10
    Origine, source.
  11. 11
    Origine, source.
  12. 12
    Origine, source.
  13. 13
    Origine, source.
  14. 14
    Origine, source.
  15. 15
    Origine, source.
  16. 16
    Arbre de décision à un seul niveau.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Bref, nous avions fini le litre, assis sur une grosse souche, avec la fameuse couverture pendue aux branches, qui pissait l’eau comme une gouttière.
  2. La lune était toute nouvelle, et, du Nord, le vent apportait l’odeur des précoces jonchées de feuilles à bout de sève, de souches cariées.

This word in other languages

stump(English)tocón(Español)Stumpf(Deutsch)cepo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osuche
  • socuhe
  • soucche
  • souceh
  • souchhe
  • souhce
  • ssouche
  • suoche

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

osuche2socuhe2soucche1souceh2souchhe1souhce2ssouche1suoche2
Edit distance from "souche"

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 "souche"?
"souche" is spelled S-O-U-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \suʃ\.
What does "souche" mean?
As a noun, "souche" means: Partie basse du tronc d’un arbre qui reste en terre quand l’arbre a été coupé.
What words are commonly confused with "souche"?
"souche" is commonly confused with "such", "sucé", "souci". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "souche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "souche" is \suʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "souche" come from?
"souche" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

strict#9,393séduit#9,394saisis#9,389tirant#9,399

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

taureau8 variantstonnerre8 variantstumeur8 variantspaient8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list