souris
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | souris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Petit rongeur de la famille des muridés.
- 2Dispositif 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.
- 3Partie du gigot de mouton.
- 4Jeune fille ou femme.
- 5Terme affectueux utilisé pour s’adresser à un petit enfant.
- 6Tampon, fait de mèches textiles, qui sert à appliquer le vernis au tampon.
- 7Tampon hygiénique.
- 8Phalène de l’euphorbe.
- 9Cartilage du naseau des chevaux.
- 10Sorte de bonnet porté par les femmes.
- 11Nœud en nonpareille que les femmes portaient au XVIII^(ème) siècle.
- 12Cordeau 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.
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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"
Frequency rank: #2,965 in French
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