souriante

\su.ʁjɑ̃t\

/\su.ʁjɑ̃t\/ adj

The verdict

“souriante” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,420. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#22,420
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de l’adjectif souriant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-souriante · souriante · French

souriante · rank #22,420 · 12 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #22,420
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sonnent

Nearest frequency peer: sonnent (-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 « souriante »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « souriante » 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).

souriante vs sourient
78% similar
souriante vs souriants
89% similar
souriante vs sourate
78% similar

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

Key facts for souriante
PropertyValue
Headwordsouriante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\su.ʁjɑ̃t\
Letters9
Frequency rank#22,420
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « souriante »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).souriantese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sonnent » (#22,419), « spaghetti » (#22,421), « solennellement » (#22,418). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « souriante » est au #22,420. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around souriante (IPA \su.ʁjɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,420 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de l’adjectif souriant.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for souriante, with forms such as "osuriante", "soruiante", and "souirante". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "sourient", "souriants", "sourate", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is souriante, spelled S-O-U-R-I-A-N-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de l’adjectif souriant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Cela, pour sûr, avait commencé, les jours ou les autres gamines s’enfuyaient, au milieu de leurs jeux, s’il venait à paraître, tandis qu’elle, souriante, le museau en l’air, attendait qu’il lui donnât en passant une petite tape sur la joue.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osuriante
  • soruiante
  • souirante
  • sourainte
  • sourianet
  • souriannte
  • souriantte
  • souriatne
  • sourinate
  • sourriante
  • ssouriante
  • suoriante

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of souriante - 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.

osuriante2soruiante2souirante2sourainte2sourianet2souriannte1souriantte1souriatne2
Edit distance from "souriante"

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 "souriante"?
"souriante" is spelled S-O-U-R-I-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \su.ʁjɑ̃t\.
What does "souriante" mean?
As an adjective, "souriante" means: Féminin singulier de l’adjectif souriant.
What words are commonly confused with "souriante"?
"souriante" is commonly confused with "sourient", "souriants", "sourate". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "souriante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "souriante" is \su.ʁjɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "souriante" come from?
"souriante" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list