soupe

\sup\

/\sup\/ noun

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The verdict

“soupe” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,893. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,893
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pain que l’on trempe dans le potage.

Corpus desk

Index FR-soupe · soupe · French

soupe · rank #4,893 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,893
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sexuelles

Nearest frequency peer: sexuelles (-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 « soupe »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « soupe » 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).

soupe vs sup
60% similar
soupe vs sous
60% similar
soupe vs sure
60% similar

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

Key facts for soupe
PropertyValue
Headwordsoupe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sup\
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,893
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soupe »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).soupese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sexuelles » (#4,892), « spécialisé » (#4,894), « senti » (#4,891). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soupe » est au #4,893. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around soupe (IPA \sup\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,893 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for soupe, with forms such as "osupe", "sopue", and "souep". 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, "sup", "sous", "sure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is soupe, spelled S-O-U-P-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pain que l’on trempe dans le potage.
  2. 2
    Potage dans lequel on trempe du pain et qu’on sert au commencement du repas.
  3. 3
    Tout type de potage.
  4. 4
    Repas.
  5. 5
    Neige gorgée d’eau.
  6. 6
    Ensemble de mots dits ou écrits de façon incompréhensible.
  7. 7
    Morceau de musique trop commercial et simpliste.
  8. 8
    Programmation télévisuelle (feuilleton, téléfilm, journal, jeux, etc.) bas de gamme à visée commerciale explicite qui tente de s’aligner sur le plus large public possible.
  9. 9
    Production intellectuelle, considérée comme une marchandise.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il trempait son pain dans sa soupe et il en mordait d’énormes bouchées, […].
  2. On peut dire que ce fut le lendemain matin seulement, lorsque, au réveil, il se trouva seul chez lui, que le père Turpin s’aperçut que sa femme était morte. Ce ne fut pas, comme on pourrait le croire, parce qu'il dut préparer sa soupe lui-même. Non. Il la mit au feu, elle bouillit, il la trempa : cela ne faisait pas un gros travail.

This word in other languages

soup(English)sopa(Español)Suppe(Deutsch)sopa(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osupe
  • sopue
  • souep
  • souppe
  • ssoupe
  • suope

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

osupe2sopue2souep2souppe1ssoupe1suope2
Edit distance from "soupe"

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 "soupe"?
"soupe" is spelled S-O-U-P-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sup\.
What does "soupe" mean?
As a noun, "soupe" means: Pain que l’on trempe dans le potage.
What words are commonly confused with "soupe"?
"soupe" is commonly confused with "sup", "sous", "sure". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "soupe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soupe" is \sup\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soupe" come from?
"soupe" 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 "soupe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

senti#4,891rugby#4,890Tokyo#4,898Obama#4,879

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

gosses6 variantsexige6 variantsford6 variantslouer6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list