souterraines

\su.tɛ.ʁɛn\

/\su.tɛ.ʁɛn\/ adj

The verdict

“souterraines” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,325. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,325
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de souterrain.

Corpus desk

Index FR-souterraines · souterraines · French

souterraines · rank #18,325 · 15 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,325
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH souterrains

Nearest frequency peer: souterrains (+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 « souterraines »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « souterraines » 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).

souterraines vs souterrains
92% similar
souterraines vs souveraines
83% similar
souterraines vs souterrain
83% similar

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

Key facts for souterraines
PropertyValue
Headwordsouterraines
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\su.tɛ.ʁɛn\
Letters12
Frequency rank#18,325
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « souterraines »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.souterrainesse 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 « souterrains » (#18,326), « sodomie » (#18,323), « souviennent » (#18,327). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « souterraines » est au #18,325. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around souterraines (IPA \su.tɛ.ʁɛn\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,325 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de souterrain.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for souterraines, with forms such as "osuterraines", "sotuerraines", and "souetrraines". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "souterrains", "souveraines", "souterrain", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is souterraines, spelled S-O-U-T-E-R-R-A-I-N-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de souterrain.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Dans tous les cas, la possibilité d’utiliser de l’eau douce est capitale : rivières, canaux, sources, eaux souterraines fossiles non renouvelables, eaux salées qu’il faut désaliner, transport par conduites de pipes-lines, même par transports flottés de la glace des banquises ou des icebergs ; la désalinisation est capitale : on pense que l’osmose électriq…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osuterraines
  • sotuerraines
  • souetrraines
  • souteraines
  • souterarines
  • souterraiens
  • souterrainess
  • souterrainnes
  • souterrainse
  • souterranies
  • souterrianes
  • soutreraines
  • soutterraines
  • ssouterraines
  • suoterraines

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of souterraines - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

osuterraines2sotuerraines2souetrraines2souteraines1souterarines2souterraiens2souterrainess1souterrainnes1
Edit distance from "souterraines"

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 "souterraines"?
"souterraines" is spelled S-O-U-T-E-R-R-A-I-N-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \su.tɛ.ʁɛn\.
What does "souterraines" mean?
As an adjective, "souterraines" means: Féminin pluriel de souterrain.
What words are commonly confused with "souterraines"?
"souterraines" is commonly confused with "souterrains", "souveraines", "souterrain". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "souterraines"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "souterraines" is \su.tɛ.ʁɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "souterraines" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list