soulager
\su.la.ʒe\
The verdict
“soulager” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,585. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,585
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Délivrer, débarrasser d’une partie de quelque fardeau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soulager · soulager · French
soulager · rank #10,585 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,585
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souhaitant
Nearest frequency peer: souhaitant (-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 « soulager »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- simplifier
simplifier
89,419 corpus weight
- socle
socle
89,418 corpus weight
- souhaitant
souhaitant
89,417 corpus weight
- soulager
soulager
89,416 corpus weight
- south
south
89,415 corpus weight
- spot
spot
89,414 corpus weight
What this shows « soulager » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soulager |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \su.la.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soulager »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around soulager (IPA \su.la.ʒe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,585 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for soulager, with forms such as "osulager", "soluager", and "soualger". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "soûler", "soulier", "soulever", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is soulager, spelled S-O-U-L-A-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Délivrer, débarrasser d’une partie de quelque fardeau.
- 2Diminuer, adoucir le travail, la peine, le mal, la douleur de quelqu’un.
- 3Satisfaire un besoin naturel, faire ses besoins.
- 4Se procurer du soulagement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soulager appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut soulager ce mulet, sa charge est trop lourde.
Ensemble une consultation de Médecins de toutes parts, portant que pour soulager du mal Son Altesse Maximiliane, est de restituer à son Maître légitime le Palatinat & autres pays dépendants d'iceluy
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osulager
- soluager
- soualger
- soulaegr
- soulagerr
- soulagger
- soulagre
- soulgaer
- soullager
- ssoulager
- suolager
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soulager - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).