souhait

\swɛ\

/\swɛ\/ noun

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The verdict

“souhait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,117. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,117
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vœu, désir qu’une chose s’accomplisse.

Corpus desk

Index FR-souhait · souhait · French

souhait · rank #7,117 · 9 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,117
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sien

Nearest frequency peer: sien (-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 « souhait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « souhait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

souhait vs sourit
71% similar
souhait vs souhaité
88% similar
souhait vs souhaits
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for souhait
PropertyValue
Headwordsouhait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\swɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,117
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « souhait »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).souhaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sien » (#7,116), « statuts » (#7,118), « sensations » (#7,114). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « souhait » est au #7,117. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around souhait (IPA \swɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,117 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Vœu, désir qu’une chose s’accomplisse.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for souhait, with forms such as "osuhait", "sohuait", and "souahit". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "sourit", "souhaité", "souhaits", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is souhait, spelled S-O-U-H-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vœu, désir qu’une chose s’accomplisse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how souhait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le capitaine vint leur adresser les souhaits du matin.
  2. Les saluts et souhaits de bon voyage furent échangés entre les deux navires, et nous appareillâmes pour Jan-Mayen.

This word in other languages

desire(English)deseo(Español)Begehr(Deutsch)moção(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osuhait
  • sohuait
  • souahit
  • souhaitt
  • souhati
  • souhhait
  • souhiat
  • ssouhait
  • suohait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of souhait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

osuhait2sohuait2souahit2souhaitt1souhati2souhhait1souhiat2ssouhait1
Edit distance from "souhait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "souhait"?
"souhait" is spelled S-O-U-H-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \swɛ\.
What does "souhait" mean?
As a noun, "souhait" means: Vœu, désir qu’une chose s’accomplisse.
What words are commonly confused with "souhait"?
"souhait" is commonly confused with "sourit", "souhaité", "souhaits". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "souhait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "souhait" is \swɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "souhait" come from?
"souhait" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "souhait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

statuts#7,118Valérie#7,126Vatican#7,128prudent#7,105

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

report9 variantsanimale9 variantsassocier9 variantsautobus9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list