soudanais

\su.da.nɛ\

/\su.da.nɛ\/ noun

The verdict

“soudanais” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,239. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,239
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Famille de langues parlées dans la région du Soudan.

Corpus desk

Index FR-soudanais · soudanais · French

soudanais · rank #27,239 · 12 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,239
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH Sotchi

Nearest frequency peer: Sotchi (-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 « soudanais »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « soudanais » 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).

soudanais vs souvenais
78% similar
soudanais vs soudanaise
90% similar

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

Key facts for soudanais
PropertyValue
Headwordsoudanais
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\su.da.nɛ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#27,239
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soudanais »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).soudanaisse 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 « Sotchi » (#27,238), « soulier » (#27,240), « soo » (#27,237). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soudanais » est au #27,239. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around soudanais (IPA \su.da.nɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,239 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Famille de langues parlées dans la région du Soudan.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for soudanais, with forms such as "osudanais", "soduanais", and "souadnais". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "souvenais", "soudanaise", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is soudanais, spelled S-O-U-D-A-N-A-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Famille de langues parlées dans la région du Soudan.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les langues négro-africaines se répartissent, à simplifier beaucoup les faits, en 2 grandes familles : le soudanais parlé du cap Vert à l’Abyssinie ; le bantou, largement répandu dans le centre, l’est et le sud du continent.
  2. Mais nous avons vu que, sans même tenir compte du groupe semi-bantou, les preuves d’une relation entre le bantou et le soudanais occidental sont suffisantes.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osudanais
  • soduanais
  • souadnais
  • soudaanis
  • soudanaiss
  • soudanasi
  • soudanias
  • soudannais
  • souddanais
  • soudnaais
  • ssoudanais
  • suodanais

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soudanais - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

osudanais2soduanais2souadnais2soudaanis2soudanaiss1soudanasi2soudanias2soudannais1
Edit distance from "soudanais"

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 "soudanais"?
"soudanais" is spelled S-O-U-D-A-N-A-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \su.da.nɛ\.
What does "soudanais" mean?
As a noun, "soudanais" means: Famille de langues parlées dans la région du Soudan.
What words are commonly confused with "soudanais"?
"soudanais" is commonly confused with "souvenais", "soudanaise". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "soudanais"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soudanais" is \su.da.nɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soudanais" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list