soudain
\su.dɛ̃\
The verdict
“soudain” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,625. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,625
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est subit, prompt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soudain · soudain · French
soudain · rank #4,625 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,625
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sondages
Nearest frequency peer: sondages (-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 « soudain »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rôles
rôles
95,379 corpus weight
- socialistes
socialistes
95,378 corpus weight
- sondages
sondages
95,377 corpus weight
- soudain
soudain
95,376 corpus weight
- stratégique
stratégique
95,375 corpus weight
- tirage
tirage
95,374 corpus weight
What this shows « soudain » 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 | soudain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \su.dɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soudain »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around soudain (IPA \su.dɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,625 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est subit, prompt.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for soudain, with forms such as "osudain", "soduain", and "souadin". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "soudan", "souhait", "soudaine", 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 soudain, spelled S-O-U-D-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qui est subit, prompt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soudain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La soudaine irruption d’un ennemi prêt à l’offensive n’eut d’autre effet immédiat sur New York que d’accroître sa véhémence habituelle.
Et puis, si aucun cataclysme soudain n’a décisivement transformé l’aspect naturel des choses, d’un seul coup, depuis un siècle, il est cependant vrai qu'au ralenti une catastrophe inéluctable impose à cette partie de la France, cette fatale loi d’impermanence.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osudain
- soduain
- souadin
- soudainn
- soudani
- souddain
- soudian
- ssoudain
- suodain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soudain - 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 "soudain", 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).