soufflait
\su.flɛ\
The verdict
“soufflait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,544. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,544
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de souffler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soufflait · soufflait · French
soufflait · rank #39,544 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,544
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sommelier
Nearest frequency peer: sommelier (-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 « soufflait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- smoothie
smoothie
60,460 corpus weight
- soma
soma
60,459 corpus weight
- sommelier
sommelier
60,458 corpus weight
- soufflait
soufflait
60,457 corpus weight
- souffrante
souffrante
60,456 corpus weight
- soviet
soviet
60,455 corpus weight
What this shows « soufflait » 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 | soufflait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \su.flɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soufflait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around soufflait (IPA \su.flɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,544 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de souffler.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for soufflait, with forms such as "osufflait", "sofuflait", and "souffalit". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "soufflet", "souffrant", "souffrait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is soufflait, spelled S-O-U-F-F-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de souffler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soufflait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il soufflait : « Je banffre », se disait-il.
Un vent glacial soufflait en permanence, rabattant des nuages chargés de pluie qui escaladaient les remparts. En mer, de puissants courants s’entrechoquaient dans un tourbillon d’algues et d’écume où s’égayait une multitude d’oiseaux marins.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osufflait
- sofuflait
- souffalit
- soufflaitt
- soufflati
- souffliat
- souffllait
- souflait
- souflfait
- ssoufflait
- suofflait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soufflait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).