souffrais
\su.fʁɛ\
The verdict
“souffrais” is uncommon French (frequency #54,918 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,918
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de souffrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souffrais · souffrais · French
souffrais · rank #54,918 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,918
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soucieuses
Nearest frequency peer: soucieuses (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « souffrais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sonnettes
sonnettes
45,086 corpus weight
- sortiraient
sortiraient
45,085 corpus weight
- soucieuses
soucieuses
45,084 corpus weight
- souffrais
souffrais
45,083 corpus weight
- souhaitables
souhaitables
45,082 corpus weight
- soulevez
soulevez
45,081 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « souffrais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | souffrais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \su.fʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « souffrais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
souffrais is uncommon French at frequency #54,918 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \su.fʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for souffrais, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 souffrais, spelled S-O-U-F-F-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de souffrir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de souffrir.
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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