souffrant
\su.fʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“souffrant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,243. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,243
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui souffre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souffrant · souffrant · French
souffrant · rank #10,243 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,243
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sou
Nearest frequency peer: sou (-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 « souffrant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- singulier
singulier
89,761 corpus weight
- songe
songe
89,760 corpus weight
- sou
sou
89,759 corpus weight
- souffrant
souffrant
89,758 corpus weight
- spécialisées
spécialisées
89,757 corpus weight
- States
States
89,756 corpus weight
What this shows « souffrant » 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 | souffrant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \su.fʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « souffrant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around souffrant (IPA \su.fʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,243 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for souffrant, with forms such as "osuffrant", "sofufrant", and "souffarnt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "souffrent", "soupirant", "souffrons", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 souffrant, spelled S-O-U-F-F-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui souffre.
- 2Qualifie la partie du corps qui est affligée, affectée, malade.
- 3Légèrement malade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how souffrant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La souffrance l’avait vieillie. Ce n’était plus une jeune fille, non plus une jeune femme : une créature souffrante depuis des années mais en ce moment souffrante à cause de moi.
Pendant ce traitement intérieur, on appliquera sur les parties souffrantes des cataplasmes.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osuffrant
- sofufrant
- souffarnt
- souffrannt
- souffrantt
- souffratn
- souffrnat
- souffrrant
- soufrant
- soufrfant
- ssouffrant
- suoffrant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of souffrant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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