souhaitais

/\swɛ.tɛ\/ verb

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#23,031

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

souhaitais is aFrenchverb. It means: Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de souhaiter. Pronounced \swɛ.tɛ\. Often confused with souhaits and souhaitons.

Key facts for souhaitais
PropertyValue
Headwordsouhaitais
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\swɛ.tɛ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#23,031
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for souhaitais is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \swɛ.tɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,031 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for souhaitais, with forms such as "osuhaitais", "sohuaitais", and "souahitais". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "souhaits", "souhaitons", "souhaitait", 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 souhaitais, spelled S-O-U-H-A-I-T-A-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de souhaiter.
  2. 2
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de souhaiter.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osuhaitais,sohuaitais,souahitais,souhaiatis,souhaitaiss,souhaitasi,souhaitias,souhaittais,souhatiais,souhhaitais,souhiatais,ssouhaitais,suohaitais

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for souhaitais

Misspelling Variants of "souhaitais"

osuhaitais10sohuaitais10souahitais10souhaiatis10souhaitaiss11souhaitasi10souhaitias10souhaittais11
Misspelling Variants of "souhaitais"

Frequency rank: #23,031 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "souhaitais"?
"souhaitais" is spelled S-O-U-H-A-I-T-A-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \swɛ.tɛ\.
What does "souhaitais" mean?
As a verb, "souhaitais" means: Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de souhaiter.
What words are commonly confused with "souhaitais"?
"souhaitais" is commonly confused with "souhaits", "souhaitons", "souhaitait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "souhaitais"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "souhaitais" is \swɛ.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "souhaitais" come from?
"souhaitais" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.