souffraient
\su.fʁɛ\
The verdict
“souffraient” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,071. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,071
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de souffrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souffraient · souffraient · French
souffraient · rank #37,071 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,071
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sonnet
Nearest frequency peer: sonnet (-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 « souffraient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- soignées
soignées
62,933 corpus weight
- someone
someone
62,932 corpus weight
- sonnet
sonnet
62,931 corpus weight
- souffraient
souffraient
62,930 corpus weight
- soupçonnait
soupçonnait
62,929 corpus weight
- sourient
sourient
62,928 corpus weight
What this shows « souffraient » 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 | souffraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \su.fʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #37,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « souffraient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around souffraient (IPA \su.fʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,071 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de souffrir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for souffraient, with forms such as "osuffraient", "sofufraient", and "souffarient". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "souffrent", "souffrant", "souffrait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is souffraient, spelled S-O-U-F-F-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de souffrir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how souffraient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sylvie Freland-Garnier, directrice du foyer logement de la Chancelière, et son équipe ont ouvert leurs portes aux personnes de la commune et du territoire Aunis Atlantique qui souffraient de la chaleur chez elles.
Si sur la route de Loimola, les Russes souffraient des constantes attaques et des champs de mines invisibles, et s’ils n’avaient toujours pas identifié la base arrière d’où le haut commandement prenait les décisions, ils avaient toutefois parfaitement localisé le front de Kollaa et y concentraient l’essentiel de leurs attaques d’artillerie...
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osuffraient
- sofufraient
- souffarient
- souffraeint
- souffraiennt
- souffraientt
- souffraietn
- souffrainet
- souffriaent
- souffrraient
- soufraient
- soufrfaient
- ssouffraient
- suoffraient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of souffraient - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).