south
\ˈsaʊθ\
The verdict
“south” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,586. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,586
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-south · south · French
south · rank #10,586 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,586
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soulager
Nearest frequency peer: soulager (-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 « south »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- socle
socle
89,418 corpus weight
- souhaitant
souhaitant
89,417 corpus weight
- soulager
soulager
89,416 corpus weight
- south
south
89,415 corpus weight
- spot
spot
89,414 corpus weight
- sprint
sprint
89,413 corpus weight
What this shows « south » 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 | south |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsaʊθ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « south »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around south (IPA \ˈsaʊθ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,586 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sud.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for south, with forms such as "osuth", "sotuh", and "souht". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "such", "soutif", "sou", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is south, spelled S-O-U-T-H.
Definition
- 1Sud.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osuth
- sotuh
- souht
- southh
- soutth
- ssouth
- suoth
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of south - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).