Souillac
\su.jak\
The verdict
“Souillac” is uncommon French (frequency #77,046 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,046
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Lot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souillac · Souillac · French
Souillac · rank #77,046 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,046
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sorin
Nearest frequency peer: Sorin (-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 « Souillac »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sociocultur…
socioculturelles
22,958 corpus weight
- soninké
soninké
22,957 corpus weight
- Sorin
Sorin
22,956 corpus weight
- Souillac
Souillac
22,955 corpus weight
- sourcilière
sourcilière
22,954 corpus weight
- soutiendrais
soutiendrais
22,953 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Souillac » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Souillac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \su.jak\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Souillac » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Souillac is uncommon French at frequency #77,046 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \su.jak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Souillac in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Souillac, spelled S-O-U-I-L-L-A-C.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Lot.
- 2Quartier de Tulle, ville française de Corrèze.
- 3Canton français, situé dans le département du Lot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Souillac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce sont une douzaine de cérémonies qui se sont déroulées pendant ces deux journées dans plusieurs lieux emblématiques de cette période dramatique où 99 hommes furent pendus aux balcons du quartier de Souillac et 149 autres déportés.
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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