soustraire
\sus.tʁɛʁ\
The verdict
“soustraire” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,824. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,824
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Retirer ; dérober.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soustraire · soustraire · French
soustraire · rank #17,824 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,824
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souhaiterais
Nearest frequency peer: souhaiterais (-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 « soustraire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- solidement
solidement
82,180 corpus weight
- sonnette
sonnette
82,179 corpus weight
- souhaiterais
souhaiterais
82,178 corpus weight
- soustraire
soustraire
82,177 corpus weight
- split
split
82,176 corpus weight
- step
step
82,175 corpus weight
What this shows « soustraire » 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 | soustraire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sus.tʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soustraire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around soustraire (IPA \sus.tʁɛʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,824 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for soustraire, with forms such as "osustraire", "sosutraire", and "sousrtaire". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "soustrait", "souscrire", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is soustraire, spelled S-O-U-S-T-R-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Retirer ; dérober.
- 2Faire échapper à ; préserver de ; affranchir de.
- 3Retrancher un nombre d’un autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soustraire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bayonville. — Un vol avec effraction a été commis au préjudice de M. Alph. Recorda à Chennery, écart de Bayonville. Entre huit et neuf heures du matin, durant la messe, un malfaiteur s’est introduit dans sa maison en brisant une vitre et a soustrait une somme d'environ huit francs.
Gvozdiline a récupéré dans l'appartement de l'officier des appareils photo Minox, […], deux dossiers momentanément soustraits à la bibliothèque confidentielle de l'état-major de l'Armée rouge.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osustraire
- sosutraire
- sousrtaire
- sousstraire
- soustarire
- soustraier
- soustrairre
- soustrarie
- soustriare
- soustrraire
- sousttraire
- soutsraire
- ssoustraire
- suostraire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soustraire - 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.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).