souhaitions
\swɛ.tjɔ̃\
The verdict
“souhaitions” is uncommon French (frequency #56,937 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,937
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de souhaiter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souhaitions · souhaitions · French
souhaitions · rank #56,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,937
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souhaiteriez
Nearest frequency peer: souhaiteriez (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « souhaitions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sollers
Sollers
43,069 corpus weight
- sopranos
sopranos
43,067 corpus weight
- soubrette
soubrette
43,066 corpus weight
- souhaiteriez
souhaiteriez
43,065 corpus weight
- souhaitions
souhaitions
43,064 corpus weight
- speaking
speaking
43,062 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « souhaitions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | souhaitions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \swɛ.tjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #56,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « souhaitions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
souhaitions is uncommon French at frequency #56,937 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \swɛ.tjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for souhaitions in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is souhaitions, spelled S-O-U-H-A-I-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de souhaiter.
- 2Première personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de souhaiter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how souhaitions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« À l’exception du fromage Saint Nectaire et du vin de Bordeaux, nous avons cuisiné avec les producteurs locaux », explique Cécile Lortholary avant de nous confier que sa petite sœur Mélina avait créé à cette occasion une recette de sauce « parce que nous souhaitions proposer autre chose que la traditionnelle mayonnaise et ketchup ».
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).