souterraine
\su.tɛ.ʁɛn\
The verdict
“souterraine” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,240. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,240
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de souterrain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souterraine · souterraine · French
souterraine · rank #16,240 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,240
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souscrit
Nearest frequency peer: souscrit (-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 « souterraine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sin
sin
83,764 corpus weight
- soufre
soufre
83,763 corpus weight
- souscrit
souscrit
83,762 corpus weight
- souterraine
souterraine
83,761 corpus weight
- spécificités
spécificités
83,760 corpus weight
- Stevens
Stevens
83,758 corpus weight
What this shows « souterraine » 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 | souterraine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \su.tɛ.ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #16,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « souterraine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around souterraine (IPA \su.tɛ.ʁɛn\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,240 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de souterrain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for souterraine, with forms such as "osuterraine", "sotuerraine", and "souetrraine". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "souveraine", "souterrains", "souterraines", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is souterraine, spelled S-O-U-T-E-R-R-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de souterrain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how souterraine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au Moyen Âge, la cité souterraine de Naours (Somme) servait de refuge aux habitants.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osuterraine
- sotuerraine
- souetrraine
- souteraine
- souterarine
- souterraien
- souterrainne
- souterranie
- souterriane
- soutreraine
- soutterraine
- ssouterraine
- suoterraine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of souterraine - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "souterraine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (13 here; floor ≥5).