soutenait
\su.tə.nɛ\
The verdict
“soutenait” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,880. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,880
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de soutenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soutenait · soutenait · French
soutenait · rank #18,880 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,880
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH somptueux
Nearest frequency peer: somptueux (-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 « soutenait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- skis
skis
81,125 corpus weight
- solitaires
solitaires
81,124 corpus weight
- somptueux
somptueux
81,122 corpus weight
- soutenait
soutenait
81,121 corpus weight
- spirituels
spirituels
81,120 corpus weight
- subjectif
subjectif
81,118 corpus weight
What this shows « soutenait » 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 | soutenait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \su.tə.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soutenait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around soutenait (IPA \su.tə.nɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,880 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de soutenir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for soutenait, with forms such as "osutenait", "sotuenait", and "souetnait". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "soutenir", "soutenant", "souvenais", and more, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is soutenait, spelled S-O-U-T-E-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de soutenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how soutenait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le gars soutenait un train un peu rapide pour moi, qui me ressentais encore de mon knock-out.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osutenait
- sotuenait
- souetnait
- souteanit
- soutenaitt
- soutenati
- souteniat
- soutennait
- soutneait
- souttenait
- ssoutenait
- suotenait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soutenait - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).