soutiennent

\su.tjɛn\

/\su.tjɛn\/ verb

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The verdict

“soutiennent” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,346. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,346
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de soutenir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-soutiennent · soutiennent · French

soutiennent · rank #6,346 · 14 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,346
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH saisie

Nearest frequency peer: saisie (-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 « soutiennent »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « soutiennent » 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).

soutiennent vs souviennent
91% similar
soutiennent vs soutienne
82% similar

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

Key facts for soutiennent
PropertyValue
Headwordsoutiennent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\su.tjɛn\
Letters11
Frequency rank#6,346
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soutiennent »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.soutiennentse 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 « saisie » (#6,345), « ss » (#6,347), « réflexions » (#6,344). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soutiennent » est au #6,346. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around soutiennent (IPA \su.tjɛn\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,346 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for soutiennent, with forms such as "osutiennent", "sotuiennent", and "souitennent". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "souviennent", "soutienne", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is soutiennent, spelled S-O-U-T-I-E-N-N-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de soutenir.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de soutenir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Les Chinois prétendent, & soutiennent comme prouvé par le fruit, qu’à enter & réenter sur ente, le fruit d’un arbre va toujours en se perfectionnant.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osutiennent
  • sotuiennent
  • souitennent
  • souteinnent
  • soutienennt
  • soutienent
  • soutiennennt
  • soutiennentt
  • soutiennetn
  • soutiennnet
  • soutinenent
  • souttiennent
  • ssoutiennent
  • suotiennent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soutiennent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

osutiennent2sotuiennent2souitennent2souteinnent2soutienennt2soutienent1soutiennennt1soutiennentt1
Edit distance from "soutiennent"

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 "soutiennent"?
"soutiennent" is spelled S-O-U-T-I-E-N-N-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \su.tjɛn\.
What does "soutiennent" mean?
As a verb, "soutiennent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de soutenir.
What words are commonly confused with "soutiennent"?
"soutiennent" is commonly confused with "souviennent", "soutienne". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "soutiennent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soutiennent" is \su.tjɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soutiennent" come from?
"soutiennent" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list