soustraction
\sus.tʁak.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“soustraction” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,026. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,026
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de soustraire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soustraction · soustraction · French
soustraction · rank #40,026 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,026
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sousa
Nearest frequency peer: Sousa (-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 « soustraction »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- spammer
spammer
59,973 corpus weight
What this shows « soustraction » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soustraction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sus.tʁak.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #40,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soustraction »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around soustraction (IPA \sus.tʁak.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,026 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for soustraction, with forms such as "osustraction", "sosutraction", and "sousrtaction". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is soustraction, spelled S-O-U-S-T-R-A-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de soustraire.
- 2Opération par laquelle on retranche un nombre d’un autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soustraction appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soustraction d’effets.
Accusé, convaincu de soustraction de papiers.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osustraction
- sosutraction
- sousrtaction
- sousstraction
- soustarction
- soustracction
- soustraciton
- soustractino
- soustractionn
- soustractoin
- soustracttion
- soustratcion
- soustrcation
- soustrraction
- sousttraction
- soutsraction
- ssoustraction
- suostraction
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soustraction - 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 "soustraction", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).