souriait
\su.ʁi.jɛ\
The verdict
“souriait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,626. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,626
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de sourire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souriait · souriait · French
souriait · rank #27,626 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,626
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sot
Nearest frequency peer: sot (-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 « souriait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- shoes
shoes
72,378 corpus weight
- sn
sn
72,377 corpus weight
- sot
sot
72,376 corpus weight
- souriait
souriait
72,375 corpus weight
- spirou
spirou
72,374 corpus weight
- suffiront
suffiront
72,372 corpus weight
What this shows « souriait » 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 | souriait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \su.ʁi.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « souriait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around souriait (IPA \su.ʁi.jɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,626 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de sourire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for souriait, with forms such as "osuriait", "soruiait", and "souirait". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "sourit", "surfait", "souriant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is souriait, spelled S-O-U-R-I-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de sourire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how souriait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle ne souriait jamais, debout derrière le comptoir, femme-tronc pivotant à peine pour saisir une clé au tableau, une note crachée par l’ordinateur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osuriait
- soruiait
- souirait
- souraiit
- souriaitt
- souriati
- souriiat
- sourriait
- ssouriait
- suoriait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of souriait - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).