souffrir

/\su.fʁiʁ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,643

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

souffrir is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de souffrir. Pronounced \su.fʁiʁ\. It ranks #3,643 in French word frequency. Often confused with souffrira and souffre.

Key facts for souffrir
PropertyValue
Headwordsouffrir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\su.fʁiʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#3,643
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of souffrir in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for souffrir is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \su.fʁiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,643 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Action de souffrir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for souffrir, with forms such as "osuffrir", "sofufrir", and "souffirr". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "souffrira", "souffre", "souffler", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is souffrir, spelled S-O-U-F-F-R-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de souffrir.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osuffrir,sofufrir,souffirr,souffrirr,souffrri,souffrrir,soufrfir,soufrir,ssouffrir,suoffrir

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for souffrir

Misspelling Variants of "souffrir"

osuffrir8sofufrir8souffirr8souffrirr9souffrri8souffrrir9soufrfir8soufrir7
Misspelling Variants of "souffrir"

Frequency rank: #3,643 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "souffrir"?
"souffrir" is spelled S-O-U-F-F-R-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \su.fʁiʁ\.
What does "souffrir" mean?
As a noun, "souffrir" means: Action de souffrir.
What words are commonly confused with "souffrir"?
"souffrir" is commonly confused with "souffrira", "souffre", "souffler". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "souffrir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "souffrir" is \su.fʁiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "souffrir" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.