souscrire
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,766
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
souscrire is aFrenchverb. It means: Écrire son nom au bas d’un acte pour l’approuver. Pronounced \sus.kʁiʁ\. Often confused with souscrit and souscrits.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | souscrire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sus.kʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for souscrire is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sus.kʁiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,766 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for souscrire, with forms such as "osuscrire", "sosucrire", and "soucsrire". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "souscrit", "souscrits", "souscrite", 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 souscrire, spelled S-O-U-S-C-R-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Écrire son nom au bas d’un acte pour l’approuver.
- 2S’engager à fournir une certaine somme pour quelque entreprise, pour quelque dépense, pour quelque œuvre de bienfaisance.
- 3S’engager à prendre une certaine partie d’un emprunt public.
- 4En 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.
- 5Consentir ou approuver ce qu’un autre dit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osuscrire,sosucrire,soucsrire,sousccrire,souscirre,souscrier,souscrirre,souscrrie,souscrrire,sousrcire,sousscrire,ssouscrire,suoscrire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for souscrire
Misspelling Variants of "souscrire"
Frequency rank: #15,766 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter S in our French index: