soucier
\su.sje\
The verdict
“soucier” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,134. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,134
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Causer de l’inquiétude, du souci à quelqu’un ; chagriner, préoccuper quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soucier · soucier · French
soucier · rank #11,134 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,134
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SMIC
Nearest frequency peer: SMIC (-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 « soucier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sceaux
sceaux
88,870 corpus weight
- sic
sic
88,869 corpus weight
- SMIC
SMIC
88,868 corpus weight
- soucier
soucier
88,867 corpus weight
- souper
souper
88,866 corpus weight
- Stefan
Stefan
88,865 corpus weight
What this shows « soucier » 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 | soucier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \su.sje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soucier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around soucier (IPA \su.sje\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,134 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for soucier, with forms such as "osucier", "socuier", and "souccier". 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, "sucer", "soucis", "souper", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is soucier, spelled S-O-U-C-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Causer de l’inquiétude, du souci à quelqu’un ; chagriner, préoccuper quelqu’un.
- 2S’inquiéter, se mettre en peine de quelque chose ou de quelqu'un, prendre intérêt à quelque chose.
- 3Se moquer de, n’attacher aucune importance à.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soucier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’en ai pas voulu parce qu’outre qu’il louchait abominablement ; il aurait fallu me séparer de ma fille, et, de fait, je ne m’en souciais pas.
Apparemment Marguerite de Baraglioul redoute l’influence de son beau-frère et se soucie peu de laisser longtemps sa fille avec lui.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osucier
- socuier
- souccier
- souceir
- soucierr
- soucire
- souicer
- ssoucier
- suocier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soucier - 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.
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 "soucier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).