sources
\suʁs\
The verdict
“sources” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,348. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,348
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de source.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sources · sources · French
sources · rank #1,348 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,348
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH siège
Nearest frequency peer: siège (-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 « sources »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sac
sac
98,656 corpus weight
- secrétaire
secrétaire
98,655 corpus weight
- siège
siège
98,654 corpus weight
- sources
sources
98,653 corpus weight
- supérieur
supérieur
98,652 corpus weight
- surprise
surprise
98,651 corpus weight
What this shows « sources » 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 | sources |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \suʁs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sources »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sources (IPA \suʁs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,348 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sources, with forms such as "osurces", "soruces", and "soucres". 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, "souris", "sourds", "sourde", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 sources, spelled S-O-U-R-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de source.
- 2Se dit du code source d’une application informatique, code qui a été compilé pour faire cette application.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sources appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les sources où les faits-diversiers puisent une partie de leurs informations sont, à Paris, la Préfecture de police et la Sûreté, où sont centralisés les rapports reçus des différents quartiers ; en province, les secrétariats de mairie, les commissariats et les gendarmeries.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osurces
- soruces
- soucres
- sourcces
- sourcess
- sourcse
- sourecs
- sourrces
- ssources
- suorces
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sources - 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.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sources", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).