souriais
\su.ʁi.jɛ\
The verdict
“souriais” is uncommon French (frequency #62,641 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,641
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de sourire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souriais · souriais · French
souriais · rank #62,641 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,641
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souverainement
Nearest frequency peer: souverainement (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « souriais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Simonet
Simonet
37,364 corpus weight
- souriais
souriais
37,360 corpus weight
- souverainem…
souverainement
37,359 corpus weight
- specific
specific
37,358 corpus weight
- spectrales
spectrales
37,357 corpus weight
- Spitzberg
Spitzberg
37,356 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « souriais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | souriais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \su.ʁi.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « souriais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
souriais is uncommon French at frequency #62,641 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \su.ʁi.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for souriais in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 souriais, spelled S-O-U-R-I-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de sourire.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de sourire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how souriais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je lui souriais, ravie de constater que tout l’argent investi depuis des années dans l’achat de crèmes repulpantes, de flacons anti-âges ou encore d’huiles aux vertus rajeunissantes servait peut-être enfin à quelque chose.
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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