soutenaient
\su.tə.nɛ\
The verdict
“soutenaient” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,378. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,378
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de soutenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soutenaient · soutenaient · French
soutenaient · rank #30,378 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,378
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sortante
Nearest frequency peer: sortante (-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 « soutenaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- skieurs
skieurs
69,626 corpus weight
- skins
skins
69,625 corpus weight
- sortante
sortante
69,624 corpus weight
- soutenaient
soutenaient
69,623 corpus weight
- Soyouz
Soyouz
69,622 corpus weight
- sponsoring
sponsoring
69,621 corpus weight
What this shows « soutenaient » 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 | soutenaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \su.tə.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #30,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soutenaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around soutenaient (IPA \su.tə.nɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,378 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de soutenir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for soutenaient, with forms such as "osutenaient", "sotuenaient", and "souetnaient". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "soutenant", "soutenait", "soutènement", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is soutenaient, spelled S-O-U-T-E-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de soutenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how soutenaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deux rangées de colonnes, comme d’interminables aiguilles de glace parfaitement alignées, soutenaient un plafond que Yoran aurait pu confondre avec un ciel d’été tant sa teinte azuréenne semblait immatérielle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osutenaient
- sotuenaient
- souetnaient
- souteanient
- soutenaeint
- soutenaiennt
- soutenaientt
- soutenaietn
- soutenainet
- souteniaent
- soutennaient
- soutneaient
- souttenaient
- ssoutenaient
- suotenaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soutenaient - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).