souris

/\su.ʁi\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,965

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

souris is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit rongeur de la famille des muridés. Pronounced \su.ʁi\. It ranks #2,965 in French word frequency. Often confused with suis and sous.

Key facts for souris
PropertyValue
Headwordsouris
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\su.ʁi\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,965
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of souris in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for souris is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \su.ʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,965 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for souris, with forms such as "osuris", "soruis", and "souirs". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "suis", "sous", "surs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is souris, spelled S-O-U-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petit rongeur de la famille des muridés.
  2. 2
    Dispositif de commande tenu à la main, connecté à un ordinateur, et dont le déplacement sur une surface entraîne le déplacement d’un repère sur l’écran.
  3. 3
    Partie du gigot de mouton.
  4. 4
    Jeune fille ou femme.
  5. 5
    Terme affectueux utilisé pour s’adresser à un petit enfant.
  6. 6
    Tampon, fait de mèches textiles, qui sert à appliquer le vernis au tampon.
  7. 7
    Tampon hygiénique.
  8. 8
    Phalène de l’euphorbe.
  9. 9
    Cartilage du naseau des chevaux.
  10. 10
    Sorte de bonnet porté par les femmes.
  11. 11
    Nœud en nonpareille que les femmes portaient au XVIII^(ème) siècle.
  12. 12
    Cordeau de traçage dont la ficelle est imprégnée de poudre de craie bleue, le tout est contenue dans une boîte bobineuse à manivelle dont la forme évoque vaguement une souris, la ficelle faisant office de queue.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osuris,soruis,souirs,souriss,sourris,soursi,ssouris,suoris

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for souris

Misspelling Variants of "souris"

osuris6soruis6souirs6souriss7sourris7soursi6ssouris7suoris6
Misspelling Variants of "souris"

Frequency rank: #2,965 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "souris"?
"souris" is spelled S-O-U-R-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \su.ʁi\.
What does "souris" mean?
As a noun, "souris" means: Petit rongeur de la famille des muridés.
What words are commonly confused with "souris"?
"souris" is commonly confused with "suis", "sous", "surs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "souris"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "souris" is \su.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "souris" come from?
"souris" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.