soufflerie
\su.flə.ʁi\
The verdict
“soufflerie” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,801. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,801
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble d’appareils destinés à produire un courant d’air.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soufflerie · soufflerie · French
soufflerie · rank #48,801 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #48,801
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soudures
Nearest frequency peer: soudures (-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 « soufflerie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- soli
soli
51,203 corpus weight
- Soraya
Soraya
51,202 corpus weight
- soudures
soudures
51,201 corpus weight
- soufflerie
soufflerie
51,200 corpus weight
- soulignés
soulignés
51,199 corpus weight
- Soult
Soult
51,198 corpus weight
What this shows « soufflerie » 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 | soufflerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.flə.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #48,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soufflerie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around soufflerie (IPA \su.flə.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,801 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for soufflerie, with forms such as "osufflerie", "sofuflerie", and "souffelrie". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "souffler", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 soufflerie, spelled S-O-U-F-F-L-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble d’appareils destinés à produire un courant d’air.
- 2Ensemble des soufflets de l’orgue.
- 3Lieu où sont installés ces appareils.
- 4Installation servant à simuler les conditions aérodynamiques d’un déplacement dans l’air.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soufflerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On procède ensuite au séchage par les moyens ordinaires: […], ou séchoirs à tabliers mobiles avec soufflerie d'air chaud, ou enfin, séchoirs à l'air libre.
Puis il enclencha le foehn sur «air chaud», et il eut la surprise de voir la chevelure, raidie et foncée par l'eau, retrouver sa souplesse et son or à mesure que la soufflerie opérait.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osufflerie
- sofuflerie
- souffelrie
- souffleire
- soufflerei
- soufflerrie
- souffllerie
- soufflreie
- souflerie
- souflferie
- ssoufflerie
- suofflerie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soufflerie - 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.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).