souillent
\suj\
The verdict
“souillent” is uncommon French (frequency #94,291 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,291
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de souiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souillent · souillent · French
souillent · rank #94,291 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,291
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sorrow
Nearest frequency peer: sorrow (-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 « souillent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soissonnais
soissonnais
5,713 corpus weight
- sophistique
sophistique
5,712 corpus weight
- sorrow
sorrow
5,711 corpus weight
- souillent
souillent
5,710 corpus weight
- sourcilleux
sourcilleux
5,709 corpus weight
- spéculum
spéculum
5,708 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « souillent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | souillent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \suj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,291 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « souillent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
souillent is uncommon French at frequency #94,291 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \suj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
souillent has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is souillent, spelled S-O-U-I-L-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de souiller.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de souiller.
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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