souscrire

\sus.kʁiʁ\

/\sus.kʁiʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“souscrire” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,766. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,766
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écrire son nom au bas d’un acte pour l’approuver.

Corpus desk

Index FR-souscrire · souscrire · French

souscrire · rank #15,766 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,766
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH souliers

Nearest frequency peer: souliers (-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 « souscrire »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « souscrire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

souscrire vs souscrit
78% similar
souscrire vs souscrits
78% similar
souscrire vs souscrite
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for souscrire
PropertyValue
Headwordsouscrire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sus.kʁiʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#15,766
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « souscrire »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.souscrirese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « souliers » (#15,765), « Stanislas » (#15,767), « snow » (#15,764). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « souscrire » est au #15,766. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around souscrire (IPA \sus.kʁiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,766 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for souscrire, with forms such as "osuscrire", "sosucrire", and "soucsrire". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "souscrit", "souscrits", "souscrite", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is souscrire, spelled S-O-U-S-C-R-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Écrire son nom au bas d’un acte pour l’approuver.
  2. 2
    S’engager à fournir une certaine somme pour quelque entreprise, pour quelque dépense, pour quelque œuvre de bienfaisance.
  3. 3
    S’engager à prendre une certaine partie d’un emprunt public.
  4. 4
    En termes de librairie, s’engager à prendre, moyennant un prix convenu, un ou plusieurs exemplaires d’un livre, d’un ouvrage qui doit être publié.
  5. 5
    Consentir ou approuver ce qu’un autre dit.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how souscrire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Souscrire un billet, une lettre de change.
  2. J’ai trois cent mille livres de rente, dit Cinq-Mars. J’en aurai le double à la mort de mon père. Voulez-vous que je vous souscrive ces cent mille livres annuelles ?

This word in other languages

subscribe(English)zustimmen(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osuscrire
  • sosucrire
  • soucsrire
  • sousccrire
  • souscirre
  • souscrier
  • souscrirre
  • souscrrie
  • souscrrire
  • sousrcire
  • sousscrire
  • ssouscrire
  • suoscrire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of souscrire - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

osuscrire2sosucrire2soucsrire2sousccrire1souscirre2souscrier2souscrirre1souscrrie2
Edit distance from "souscrire"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "souscrire"?
"souscrire" is spelled S-O-U-S-C-R-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sus.kʁiʁ\.
What does "souscrire" mean?
As a verb, "souscrire" means: Écrire son nom au bas d’un acte pour l’approuver.
What words are commonly confused with "souscrire"?
"souscrire" is commonly confused with "souscrit", "souscrits", "souscrite". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "souscrire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "souscrire" is \sus.kʁiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "souscrire" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "souscrire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Stanislas#15,767Symphonie#15,770séduisant#15,771éradiquer#15,785

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

trompent13 variantsretournée13 variantsrefroidir13 variantsprocession13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list