sournoises
\suʁ.nwaz\
The verdict
“sournoises” is uncommon French (frequency #74,397 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,397
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de sournois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sournoises · sournoises · French
sournoises · rank #74,397 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,397
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soûlé
Nearest frequency peer: soûlé (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « sournoises »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- SMD
SMD
25,608 corpus weight
- sournoises
sournoises
25,604 corpus weight
- soûlé
soûlé
25,603 corpus weight
- spongieux
spongieux
25,601 corpus weight
- stabilisant
stabilisant
25,600 corpus weight
- stances
stances
25,599 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sournoises » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sournoises |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \suʁ.nwaz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sournoises » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sournoises is uncommon French at frequency #74,397 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \suʁ.nwaz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de sournois.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sournoises, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sournoises, spelled S-O-U-R-N-O-I-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de sournois.
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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