souffre
\sufʁ\
The verdict
“souffre” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,804. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,804
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif du verbe souffrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souffre · souffre · French
souffre · rank #3,804 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,804
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sortent
Nearest frequency peer: sortent (-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 « souffre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- signal
signal
96,200 corpus weight
- sièges
sièges
96,199 corpus weight
- sortent
sortent
96,198 corpus weight
- souffre
souffre
96,197 corpus weight
- tableaux
tableaux
96,196 corpus weight
- Thierry
Thierry
96,195 corpus weight
What this shows « souffre » 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 | souffre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sufʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « souffre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around souffre (IPA \sufʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,804 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for souffre, with forms such as "osuffre", "sofufre", and "souffer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "soufre", "sourire", "suffire", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 souffre, spelled S-O-U-F-F-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif du verbe souffrir.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif du verbe souffrir.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif du verbe souffrir.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif du verbe souffrir.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe souffrir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how souffre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Donner de la drogue ou un verre d’alcool à quelqu’un qui suit une cure de désintoxication, sous prétexte qu’il souffre des symptômes du sevrage, lui procurera sans doute un soulagement momentané apprécié, mais un tel geste ne lui fera aucun bien à long terme.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osuffre
- sofufre
- souffer
- souffrre
- soufrfe
- ssouffre
- suoffre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of souffre - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).