source

\suʁs\

/\suʁs\/ noun

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The verdict

“source” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #662. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#662
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Point d’émergence naturelle d’eau, généralement souterraine, à la surface du sol.

Corpus desk

Index FR-source · source · French

source · rank #662 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #662
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sauf

Nearest frequency peer: sauf (-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 « source »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « source » 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).

source vs sure
67% similar
source vs sucé
50% similar
source vs sourd
67% similar

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

Key facts for source
PropertyValue
Headwordsource
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\suʁs\
Letters6
Frequency rank#662
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « source »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sauf » (#661), « troisième » (#663), « rester » (#660). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « source » est au #662. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around source (IPA \suʁs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #662 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for source, with forms such as "osurce", "soruce", and "soucre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sure", "sucé", "sourd", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is source, spelled S-O-U-R-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Point d’émergence naturelle d’eau, généralement souterraine, à la surface du sol.
  2. 2
    Point d’où s’écoule un liquide ou un gaz naturel.
  3. 3
    Point ou objet à l’origine d’un rayonnement lumineux, thermique ou d’une émission sonore.
  4. 4
    Zone ou phénomène à l’origine d’un apport particulier (chaleur, humidité, pollution).
  5. 5
    Origine, cause, principe ou point de départ d’un phénomène, d’une action ou d’une idée.
  6. 6
    Matière, appareil ou installation émettant des rayonnements ionisants ou contenant des substances radioactives.
  7. 7
    Référence ou indication de l’origine d’une information ou d’une citation.
  8. 8
    Ensemble des documents représentés sur la carte et éventuellement des autres informations portées sur elle.
  9. 9
    Code source ou donnée d’origine utilisée par un programme ou un système.
  10. 10
    Fasce ondée (bande horizontale formant des vagues) traversant en un nombre défini de fois la surface d’une fontaine héraldique.
  11. 11
    Dans un graphe orienté, sommet dont le degré entrant est nul.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. En vain, j’avais cherché un ru […] ou bien une source […] une petite source qui dort dans sa niche de terre moussue, pareille aux niches où nichent les saints campagnards.
  2. C’est un pays très isolé qu’il n’est pas facile d’atteindre. […] Il s’agit d’une vallée qui dépend de la Sèvre Nantaise, dont la source est d’ailleurs assez proche […]

Synonyms

fontainesourcelet

This word in other languages

spring(English)fuente(Español)Born(Deutsch)fonte(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osurce
  • soruce
  • soucre
  • sourcce
  • sourec
  • sourrce
  • ssource
  • suorce

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of source - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

osurce2soruce2soucre2sourcce1sourec2sourrce1ssource1suorce2
Edit distance from "source"

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 "source"?
"source" is spelled S-O-U-R-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \suʁs\.
What does "source" mean?
As a noun, "source" means: Point d’émergence naturelle d’eau, généralement souterraine, à la surface du sol.
What words are commonly confused with "source"?
"source" is commonly confused with "sure", "sucé", "sourd". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "source"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "source" is \suʁs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "source" come from?
"source" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

rester#660photos#658durant#670facile#654

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

connais8 variantsvaleur8 variantsscène8 variantslequel8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list