soumission
\su.mi.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“soumission” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #7,629 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #7,629
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de se soumettre, de se ranger sous l’autorité d’une personne.
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 | soumission |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.mi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “soumission” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for soumission is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \su.mi.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,629 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for soumission, with forms such as "osumission", "somuission", and "souimssion". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "soumissions", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is soumission, spelled S-O-U-M-I-S-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de se soumettre, de se ranger sous l’autorité d’une personne.
- 2Principe spirituel d’acceptation totale et d’obéissance aveugle à une divinité ou aux valeurs constitutives d’une religion.
- 3Disposition à obéir.
- 4Acte d’accepter ou de consentir à se mettre dans une situation de dominé ou dans un état d’objet sexuel.
- 5Démonstration respectueuse dont un inférieur usait à l’égard d’un supérieur pour lui faire satisfaction.
- 6Acte, d’un écrit par lequel on déclare faire une acquisition, ou se charger d’un ouvrage, d’une fourniture, d’une entreprise, à telles et telles conditions, dans un marché soumis à la concurrence.
- 7Dans l’ancienne administration, accepter le résultat d’un contrôle fiscal. référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème)
- 8Technique consistant à faire abandonner son adversaire paralysé, par exemple à la suite d’un étranglement ou d'une clé de bras.
- 9Abréviation de soumission au régime forestier : acte par lequel une collectivité ou une personne morale soumet une parcelle au régime forestier.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osumission,somuission,souimssion,soumision,soumisison,soumissino,soumissionn,soumissoin,soummission,soumsision,ssoumission,suomission
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soumission - 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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Using “soumission”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-O-U-M-I-S-S-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \su.mi.sjɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “soumissions” - see the side-by-side comparison. soumission vs soumissions
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.