Soult

name

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The verdict

“Soult” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,803. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,803
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-soult · Soult · French

Soult · rank #48,803 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,803
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH soulignés

Nearest frequency peer: soulignés (-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 « Soult »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Soult » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Soult vs sul
40% similar
Soult vs sous
40% similar
Soult vs suit
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Soult
PropertyValue
HeadwordSoult
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#48,803
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Soult »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Soultse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « soulignés » (#48,802), « soufflerie » (#48,801), « spread » (#48,805). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « Soult » est au #48,803. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around Soult, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,803 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Soult, with forms such as "osult", "solut", and "soullt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sul", "sous", "suit", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Soult, spelled S-O-U-L-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.
  2. 2
    Nom de Jean-de-Dieu Soult, maréchal d'Empire et homme d'État français (1769-1851).

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Soult appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La guerre, suivant moi, ne peut pas durer davantage, si le général en chef ressemble un peu à Washington. Si ce n’est qu’un pillard habile et brave, comme Soult, je me retirerai une seconde fois.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osult
  • solut
  • soullt
  • soultt
  • soutl
  • ssoult
  • suolt

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Soult - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

osult2solut2soullt1soultt1soutl2ssoult1suolt2
Edit distance from "Soult"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Soult"?
"Soult" is spelled S-O-U-L-T.
What does "Soult" mean?
As a proper noun, "Soult" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Soult"?
"Soult" is commonly confused with "sul", "sous", "suit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Soult" come from?
"Soult" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Soult", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

strat#48,807sires#48,797sheet#48,793tinto#48,829

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

taffer7 variantstoken7 variantsrâles7 variantstories7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list