soutient

\su.tjɛ̃\

/\su.tjɛ̃\/ verb

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The verdict

“soutient” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,171. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,171
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-soutient · soutient · French

soutient · rank #3,171 · 11 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,171
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH totalité

Nearest frequency peer: totalité (+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 « soutient »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « soutient » 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).

soutient vs souvent
75% similar
soutient vs souviens
75% similar
soutient vs souvient
88% similar

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

Key facts for soutient
PropertyValue
Headwordsoutient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\su.tjɛ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#3,171
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soutient »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.soutientse 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 « totalité » (#3,172), « sensible » (#3,169), « trump » (#3,173). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soutient » est au #3,171. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around soutient (IPA \su.tjɛ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,171 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de soutenir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for soutient, with forms such as "osutient", "sotuient", and "souitent". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "souvent", "souviens", "souvient", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is soutient, spelled S-O-U-T-I-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de soutenir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il suffit, dit ce savant chirurgien, d’énoncer les principaux arguments de cette régénération des chairs pour en finir avec une théorie que personne ne soutient aujourd’hui.
  2. Le statut romanesque implicitement et explicitement assigné par les personnages narrateurs à leur histoire se soutient essentiellement grâce à une nouvelle rhétorique, non plus de figures mais d’effets, qui permet au héros de se construire lui-même par le langage, non seulement en référence à un schème narratif archétypal grâce à la revendication héroïque…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osutient
  • sotuient
  • souitent
  • souteint
  • soutiennt
  • soutientt
  • soutietn
  • soutinet
  • souttient
  • ssoutient
  • suotient

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soutient - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

osutient2sotuient2souitent2souteint2soutiennt1soutientt1soutietn2soutinet2
Edit distance from "soutient"

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 "soutient"?
"soutient" is spelled S-O-U-T-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \su.tjɛ̃\.
What does "soutient" mean?
As a verb, "soutient" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de soutenir.
What words are commonly confused with "soutient"?
"soutient" is commonly confused with "souvent", "souviens", "souvient". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "soutient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soutient" is \su.tjɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soutient" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

totalité#3,172sensible#3,169éditions#3,176richesse#3,166

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

sachant11 variantsrendent11 variantsféminin11 variantsgarantie11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list