soudains
\su.dɛ̃\
The verdict
“soudains” is uncommon French (frequency #65,529 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,529
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de soudain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soudains · soudains · French
soudains · rank #65,529 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,529
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sophistes
Nearest frequency peer: sophistes (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « soudains »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- songerait
songerait
34,475 corpus weight
- sonneur
sonneur
34,474 corpus weight
- sophistes
sophistes
34,473 corpus weight
- soudains
soudains
34,472 corpus weight
- soufflera
soufflera
34,471 corpus weight
- soumette
soumette
34,470 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soudains » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soudains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \su.dɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soudains » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soudains is uncommon French at frequency #65,529 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \su.dɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de soudain.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for soudains, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is soudains, spelled S-O-U-D-A-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de soudain.
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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