soupirant
\su.pi.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“soupirant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,023. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,023
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui languit d’amour pour une femme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soupirant · soupirant · French
soupirant · rank #40,023 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,023
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sounds
Nearest frequency peer: sounds (-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 « soupirant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Souleymane
Souleymane
59,981 corpus weight
- sounds
sounds
59,979 corpus weight
- soupirant
soupirant
59,978 corpus weight
- sourdine
sourdine
59,977 corpus weight
- Sousa
Sousa
59,976 corpus weight
- soustraction
soustraction
59,975 corpus weight
What this shows « soupirant » 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 | soupirant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.pi.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soupirant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around soupirant (IPA \su.pi.ʁɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,023 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui qui languit d’amour pour une femme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for soupirant, with forms such as "osupirant", "sopuirant", and "souiprant". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "souriant", "soupira", "souffrant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is soupirant, spelled S-O-U-P-I-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Celui qui languit d’amour pour une femme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soupirant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle a beaucoup de soupirants. (Il est familier et légèrement ironique.)
Dans Les Femmes savantes de Molière, Bélise s’imagine avoir de nombreux soupirants.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osupirant
- sopuirant
- souiprant
- soupiarnt
- soupirannt
- soupirantt
- soupiratn
- soupirnat
- soupirrant
- souppirant
- soupriant
- ssoupirant
- suopirant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soupirant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).