souhaité

\swɛ.te\

/\swɛ.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“souhaité” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,893. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,893
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de souhaiter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-souhaite · souhaité · French

souhaité · rank #6,893 · 11 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,893
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sonore

Nearest frequency peer: sonore (-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 « souhaité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « souhaité » 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).

souhaité vs sourate
63% similar
souhaité vs souhaits
88% similar
souhaité vs souhaiter
78% similar

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

Key facts for souhaité
PropertyValue
Headwordsouhaité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\swɛ.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#6,893
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « souhaité »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.souhaitése 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 « sonore » (#6,892), « sphère » (#6,894), « soie » (#6,891). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « souhaité » est au #6,893. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around souhaité (IPA \swɛ.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,893 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de souhaiter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for souhaité, with forms such as "osuhaité", "sohuaité", and "souahité". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "sourate", "souhaits", "souhaiter", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is souhaité, spelled S-O-U-H-A-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin singulier de souhaiter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Marie-Claude Herry, présidente, s’est dite ravie de la soirée d’autant plus que des familles ont souhaité rejoindre le comité de jumelage.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osuhaité
  • sohuaité
  • souahité
  • souhaite
  • souhaitté
  • souhaiét
  • souhatié
  • souhhaité
  • souhiaté
  • ssouhaité
  • suohaité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of souhaité - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

osuhaité2sohuaité2souahité2souhaite1souhaitté1souhaiét2souhatié2souhhaité1
Edit distance from "souhaité"

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 "souhaité"?
"souhaité" is spelled S-O-U-H-A-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \swɛ.te\.
What does "souhaité" mean?
As a verb, "souhaité" means: Participe passé masculin singulier de souhaiter.
What words are commonly confused with "souhaité"?
"souhaité" is commonly confused with "sourate", "souhaits", "souhaiter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "souhaité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "souhaité" is \swɛ.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "souhaité" come from?
"souhaité" 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 "souhaité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list