source
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#662
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
source is aFrenchnoun. It means: Point d’émergence naturelle d’eau, généralement souterraine, à la surface du sol. Pronounced \suʁs\. It ranks #662 in French word frequency. Often confused with sure and sucé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | source |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \suʁs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for source is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \suʁs\. Corpus data places it at rank #662 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for source, with forms such as "osurce", "soruce", and "soucre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sure", "sucé", "sourd", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is source, spelled S-O-U-R-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Point d’émergence naturelle d’eau, généralement souterraine, à la surface du sol.
- 2Point d’où s’écoule un liquide ou un gaz naturel.
- 3Point ou objet à l’origine d’un rayonnement lumineux, thermique ou d’une émission sonore.
- 4Zone ou phénomène à l’origine d’un apport particulier (chaleur, humidité, pollution).
- 5Origine, cause, principe ou point de départ d’un phénomène, d’une action ou d’une idée.
- 6Matière, appareil ou installation émettant des rayonnements ionisants ou contenant des substances radioactives.
- 7Référence ou indication de l’origine d’une information ou d’une citation.
- 8Ensemble des documents représentés sur la carte et éventuellement des autres informations portées sur elle.
- 9Code source ou donnée d’origine utilisée par un programme ou un système.
- 10Fasce ondée (bande horizontale formant des vagues) traversant en un nombre défini de fois la surface d’une fontaine héraldique.
- 11Dans un graphe orienté, sommet dont le degré entrant est nul.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osurce,soruce,soucre,sourcce,sourec,sourrce,ssource,suorce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for source
Misspelling Variants of "source"
Frequency rank: #662 in French
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