soucieux
\su.sjø\
The verdict
“soucieux” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,950. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,950
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se soucie, qui prend intérêt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soucieux · soucieux · French
soucieux · rank #10,950 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,950
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SOS
Nearest frequency peer: SOS (-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 « soucieux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- soccer
soccer
89,054 corpus weight
- soigné
soigné
89,053 corpus weight
- SOS
SOS
89,052 corpus weight
- soucieux
soucieux
89,051 corpus weight
- steam
steam
89,050 corpus weight
- sup
sup
89,049 corpus weight
What this shows « soucieux » 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 | soucieux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \su.sjø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soucieux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around soucieux (IPA \su.sjø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,950 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for soucieux, with forms such as "osucieux", "socuieux", and "souccieux". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "spacieux", "studieux", "sociaux", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 soucieux, spelled S-O-U-C-I-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui se soucie, qui prend intérêt.
- 2Qui est inquiet, pensif, qui a du souci.
- 3Qui marque du souci.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soucieux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le jeune homme se dirigea donc vers le parc de Valfeuillu, distant de quelques pas seulement, et, peu soucieux de l'article 394 du Code pénal, il franchit le large fossé qui entoure la propriété de M. de Trémorel.
Ce n'est pas à cette allure que vont jamais les gentlemen, soucieux de leur respectabilité.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osucieux
- socuieux
- souccieux
- souceiux
- soucieuxx
- souciexu
- souciuex
- souiceux
- ssoucieux
- suocieux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soucieux - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).