sout
\su\
The verdict
“sout” is uncommon French (frequency #67,893 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,893
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de soudre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sout · sout · French
sout · rank #67,893 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,893
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Soulié
Nearest frequency peer: Soulié (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « sout »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sorbets
sorbets
32,111 corpus weight
- sortions
sortions
32,110 corpus weight
- Soulié
Soulié
32,109 corpus weight
- sout
sout
32,108 corpus weight
- spolié
spolié
32,107 corpus weight
- Srb
Srb
32,106 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sout » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sout |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \su\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sout » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sout is uncommon French at frequency #67,893 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \su\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de soudre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sout, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sout, spelled S-O-U-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de soudre.
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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