sourate

\su.ʁat\

/\su.ʁat\/ noun

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The verdict

“sourate” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,358. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,358
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
17
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chapitre du Coran.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sourate · sourate · French

sourate · rank #28,358 · 9 variants · 17 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,358
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH soumissions

Nearest frequency peer: soumissions (-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 « sourate »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sourate » 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).

sourate vs soute
71% similar
sourate vs source
71% similar
sourate vs sûreté
43% similar

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

Key facts for sourate
PropertyValue
Headwordsourate
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\su.ʁat\
Letters7
Frequency rank#28,358
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sourate »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.souratese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « soumissions » (#28,357), « soutenons » (#28,359), « Spinoza » (#28,360). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sourate » est au #28,358. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around sourate (IPA \su.ʁat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,358 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Chapitre du Coran.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sourate, with forms such as "osurate", "soruate", and "souarte". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "soute", "source", "sûreté", and more, 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sourate, spelled S-O-U-R-A-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chapitre du Coran.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Elle savait aussi réciter les deux ou trois courtes sourates du Coran qu'aucun musulman n'ignore.

This word in other languages

sura(English)sura(Español)Sure(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osurate
  • soruate
  • souarte
  • souraet
  • souratte
  • sourrate
  • sourtae
  • ssourate
  • suorate

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

osurate2soruate2souarte2souraet2souratte1sourrate1sourtae2ssourate1
Edit distance from "sourate"

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 "sourate"?
"sourate" is spelled S-O-U-R-A-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \su.ʁat\.
What does "sourate" mean?
As a noun, "sourate" means: Chapitre du Coran.
What words are commonly confused with "sourate"?
"sourate" is commonly confused with "soute", "source", "sûreté". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sourate"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sourate" is \su.ʁat\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sourate" come from?
"sourate" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Spinoza#28,360strates#28,363séismes#28,369sensuel#28,347

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

should9 variantsscierie9 variantsSambre9 variantsrévéla9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list