sourire
\su.ʁiʁ\
The verdict
“sourire” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,757. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,757
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rire sans éclat, par un léger mouvement de la bouche et du visage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sourire · sourire · French
sourire · rank #1,757 · 9 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,757
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sentir
Nearest frequency peer: sentir (-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 « sourire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réduire
réduire
98,247 corpus weight
- répond
répond
98,246 corpus weight
- sentir
sentir
98,245 corpus weight
- sourire
sourire
98,244 corpus weight
- tourner
tourner
98,243 corpus weight
- van
van
98,242 corpus weight
What this shows « sourire » 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 | sourire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \su.ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sourire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around sourire (IPA \su.ʁiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,757 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sourire, with forms such as "osurire", "soruire", and "souirre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "souris", "sourit", "sourires", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sourire, spelled S-O-U-R-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Rire sans éclat, par un léger mouvement de la bouche et du visage.
- 2Considérer avec un peu de moquerie ou de dédain.
- 3Présenter un aspect séduisant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sourire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il m’a salué à sa manière, en portant deux doigts à sa tête et en souriant d'un air bonasse.
Mais Jacques souriait, et il n’avait pas l’air de lui vouloir du mal.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osurire
- soruire
- souirre
- sourier
- sourirre
- sourrie
- sourrire
- ssourire
- suorire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sourire - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sourire", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).