soudure

\su.dyʁ\

/\su.dyʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“soudure” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,774. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,774
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de souder ; le résultat de ce travail.

Corpus desk

Index FR-soudure · soudure · French

soudure · rank #21,774 · 9 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #21,774
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sollicitations

Nearest frequency peer: sollicitations (-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 « soudure »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « soudure » 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).

soudure vs soufre
71% similar
soudure vs suture
71% similar
soudure vs sourire
71% similar

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

Key facts for soudure
PropertyValue
Headwordsoudure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\su.dyʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#21,774
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soudure »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).soudurese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sollicitations » (#21,773), « spécifications » (#21,775), « socialisation » (#21,772). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soudure » est au #21,774. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around soudure (IPA \su.dyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,774 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for soudure, with forms such as "osudure", "soduure", and "souddure". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "soufre", "suture", "sourire", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is soudure, spelled S-O-U-D-U-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de souder ; le résultat de ce travail.
  2. 2
    Endroit par où les deux pièces de métal sont soudées.
  3. 3
    Composition métallique fusible, qui sert à souder, à unir ensemble des pièces de métal.
  4. 4
    Suppression du trait d’union.
  5. 5
    Chevauchement de deux périodes d’approvisionnement d’un produit.
  6. 6
    Chevauchement de deux périodes budgétaires.
  7. 7
    Période entre deux récoltes, pendant laquelle la production agricole est nulle, en particulier à cause de la sécheresse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le polypropylène est difficilement collable. La technique adoptée est la soudure au miroir ou par rotation.
  2. Le principe est basé sur une ondulation longitudinale d'un feuillard inox en 304 L, un spiralage du feuillard ondulé sur un mandrin donnant le diamètre intérieur souhaité, une soudure en continu du feuillard et un contrôle de la soudure.

This word in other languages

weld(English)soldadura(Español)Schweißen(Deutsch)soldadura(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osudure
  • soduure
  • souddure
  • soudrue
  • souduer
  • soudurre
  • souudre
  • ssoudure
  • suodure

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soudure - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

osudure2soduure2souddure1soudrue2souduer2soudurre1souudre2ssoudure1
Edit distance from "soudure"

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 "soudure"?
"soudure" is spelled S-O-U-D-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \su.dyʁ\.
What does "soudure" mean?
As a noun, "soudure" means: Action de souder ; le résultat de ce travail.
What words are commonly confused with "soudure"?
"soudure" is commonly confused with "soufre", "suture", "sourire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "soudure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soudure" is \su.dyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soudure" come from?
"soudure" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

siemens#21,771Seymour#21,770through#21,794tonique#21,797

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

sensée9 variantssearch9 variantssésame9 variantsréagis9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list