souhaitait

\swɛ.tɛ\

/\swɛ.tɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“souhaitait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,077. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,077
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de souhaiter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-souhaitait · souhaitait · French

souhaitait · rank #10,077 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,077
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sorbonne

Nearest frequency peer: sorbonne (-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 « souhaitait »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « souhaitait » 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).

souhaitait vs souhaitent
80% similar
souhaitait vs souhaitant
90% similar
souhaitait vs souhaiterait
83% similar

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

Key facts for souhaitait
PropertyValue
Headwordsouhaitait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\swɛ.tɛ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#10,077
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « souhaitait »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sorbonne » (#10,076), « souple » (#10,078), « sonner » (#10,075). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « souhaitait » est au #10,077. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around souhaitait (IPA \swɛ.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,077 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de souhaiter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for souhaitait, with forms such as "osuhaitait", "sohuaitait", and "souahitait". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "souhaitent", "souhaitant", "souhaiterait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is souhaitait, spelled S-O-U-H-A-I-T-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de souhaiter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. En lui-même, il souhaitait que Feempje déguerpît, car les colères brusques du Hollandais le faisait trembler pour ses vitres.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osuhaitait
  • sohuaitait
  • souahitait
  • souhaiatit
  • souhaitaitt
  • souhaitati
  • souhaitiat
  • souhaittait
  • souhatiait
  • souhhaitait
  • souhiatait
  • ssouhaitait
  • suohaitait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

osuhaitait2sohuaitait2souahitait2souhaiatit2souhaitaitt1souhaitati2souhaitiat2souhaittait1
Edit distance from "souhaitait"

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 "souhaitait"?
"souhaitait" is spelled S-O-U-H-A-I-T-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \swɛ.tɛ\.
What does "souhaitait" mean?
As a verb, "souhaitait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de souhaiter.
What words are commonly confused with "souhaitait"?
"souhaitait" is commonly confused with "souhaitent", "souhaitant", "souhaiterait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "souhaitait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "souhaitait" is \swɛ.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "souhaitait" come from?
"souhaitait" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list