Sousa
The verdict
“Sousa” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,025. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,025
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sousa · Sousa · French
Sousa · rank #40,025 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,025
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sourdine
Nearest frequency peer: sourdine (-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 « Sousa »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sounds
sounds
59,979 corpus weight
- soupirant
soupirant
59,978 corpus weight
- sourdine
sourdine
59,977 corpus weight
- Sousa
Sousa
59,976 corpus weight
- soustraction
soustraction
59,975 corpus weight
- soy
soy
59,974 corpus weight
What this shows « Sousa » 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 | Sousa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sousa »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Sousa, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,025 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sousa, with forms such as "osusa", "sosua", and "souas". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sus", "soya", "south", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Sousa, spelled S-O-U-S-A.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sousa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Egas Gomes de Sousa.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osusa
- sosua
- souas
- soussa
- ssousa
- suosa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sousa - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Sousa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).