souhaitant
\swɛ.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“souhaitant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,584. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,584
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de souhaiter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souhaitant · souhaitant · French
souhaitant · rank #10,584 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,584
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH socle
Nearest frequency peer: socle (-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 « souhaitant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Shakespeare
Shakespeare
89,420 corpus weight
- simplifier
simplifier
89,419 corpus weight
- socle
socle
89,418 corpus weight
- souhaitant
souhaitant
89,417 corpus weight
- soulager
soulager
89,416 corpus weight
- south
south
89,415 corpus weight
What this shows « souhaitant » 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 | souhaitant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \swɛ.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « souhaitant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around souhaitant (IPA \swɛ.tɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,584 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de souhaiter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for souhaitant, with forms such as "osuhaitant", "sohuaitant", and "souahitant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "souhaitent", "souhaitons", "souhaitait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is souhaitant, spelled S-O-U-H-A-I-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de souhaiter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how souhaitant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En ne souhaitant pas devenir une bombe d’amour atomique, pour exploser les uns vers les autres et accélérer ainsi la tragédie du destin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osuhaitant
- sohuaitant
- souahitant
- souhaiatnt
- souhaitannt
- souhaitantt
- souhaitatn
- souhaitnat
- souhaittant
- souhatiant
- souhhaitant
- souhiatant
- ssouhaitant
- suohaitant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of souhaitant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "souhaitant", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).