souriant
\su.ʁjɑ̃\
The verdict
“souriant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,563. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,563
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui sourit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souriant · souriant · French
souriant · rank #9,563 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,563
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soulagement
Nearest frequency peer: soulagement (-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 « souriant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sirop
sirop
90,441 corpus weight
- sorcier
sorcier
90,440 corpus weight
- soulagement
soulagement
90,439 corpus weight
- souriant
souriant
90,438 corpus weight
- Syrien
Syrien
90,437 corpus weight
- textile
textile
90,436 corpus weight
What this shows « souriant » 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 | souriant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \su.ʁjɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « souriant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around souriant (IPA \su.ʁjɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,563 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui sourit.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for souriant, with forms such as "osuriant", "soruiant", and "souirant". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "sourit", "surfant", "soutient", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is souriant, spelled S-O-U-R-I-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui sourit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how souriant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La porte était à peine fermée derrière le prince que le roi de Navarre, […], apparut souriant sur le seuil de la chambre.
Lorsqu'au bout de quelques semaines Elhamy la remercia, avec une cordialité souriante, du bien qu'elle avait fait à son fils, une émotion sourde étreignit sa gorge.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osuriant
- soruiant
- souirant
- souraint
- souriannt
- souriantt
- souriatn
- sourinat
- sourriant
- ssouriant
- suoriant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of souriant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).