soute

\sut\

/\sut\/ noun

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The verdict

“soute” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,813. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,813
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réduit ménagé dans les étages inférieurs d’un navire et qui sert de magasin pour les munitions de guerre, pour les provisions, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-soute · soute · French

soute · rank #25,813 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #25,813
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sociologiques

Nearest frequency peer: sociologiques (-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 « soute »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « soute » 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).

soute vs ste
60% similar
soute vs sure
60% similar
soute vs sucé
40% similar

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

Key facts for soute
PropertyValue
Headwordsoute
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sut\
Letters5
Frequency rank#25,813
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soute »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sociologiques » (#25,812), « sparte » (#25,814), « silicone » (#25,811). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soute » est au #25,813. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around soute (IPA \sut\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,813 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for soute, with forms such as "osute", "sotue", and "souet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ste", "sure", "sucé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is soute, spelled S-O-U-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Réduit ménagé dans les étages inférieurs d’un navire et qui sert de magasin pour les munitions de guerre, pour les provisions, etc.
  2. 2
    Compartiment de la navette spatiale américaine dans lequel sont placées les charges utiles (satellites artificiels etc.).
  3. 3
    Consommation énergétique des navires et des aéronefs.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La soute à poudre est pleine, nos canons ont la bouche ouverte, et ne demandent qu’à parler.
  2. Son premier soin fut d’abord d’agrandir ses soutes, afin d’emporter la plus grande quantité possible de charbon.

This word in other languages

hold(English)bodega(Español)Laderaum(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osute
  • sotue
  • souet
  • soutte
  • ssoute
  • suote

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soute - 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.

osute2sotue2souet2soutte1ssoute1suote2
Edit distance from "soute"

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 "soute"?
"soute" is spelled S-O-U-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sut\.
What does "soute" mean?
As a noun, "soute" means: Réduit ménagé dans les étages inférieurs d’un navire et qui sert de magasin pour les munitions de guerre, pour les provisions, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "soute"?
"soute" is commonly confused with "ste", "sure", "sucé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "soute"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soute" is \sut\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soute" come from?
"soute" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Stern#25,819stick#25,820tutos#25,846Pepsi#25,764

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

wing6 variantswish6 variantsyoupi6 variantsabbés6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list