souillure
\su.jyʁ\
The verdict
“souillure” is uncommon French (frequency #57,607 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,607
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tache, saleté sur quelque chose. — Note d’usage : Il ne s’emploie guère qu’au figuré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souillure · souillure · French
souillure · rank #57,607 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,607
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souciez
Nearest frequency peer: souciez (-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 « souillure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Soriano
Soriano
42,397 corpus weight
- sosies
sosies
42,396 corpus weight
- souciez
souciez
42,395 corpus weight
- souillure
souillure
42,394 corpus weight
- soup
soup
42,393 corpus weight
- soutes
soutes
42,392 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « souillure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | souillure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.jyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « souillure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
souillure is uncommon French at frequency #57,607 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.jyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tache, saleté sur quelque chose. — Note d’usage : Il ne s’emploie guère qu’au figuré.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for souillure, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is souillure, spelled S-O-U-I-L-L-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Tache, saleté sur quelque chose. — Note d’usage : Il ne s’emploie guère qu’au figuré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how souillure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Marie. – Ah ! Catherine, il n’est même plus beau ; comme une fumée malfaisante, la souillure de son cœur lui est montée au visage.
On a toujours considéré comme une souillure, dans la manière de voir des hommes d’Église, le fait, légitime pourtant, - puisque Angélique s'était mariée, - de produire au monde un nouveau pécheur.
This word in other languages
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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