souvenait
\su.və.nɛ\
The verdict
“souvenait” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,747. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,747
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de souvenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souvenait · souvenait · French
souvenait · rank #31,747 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,747
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soupçonnée
Nearest frequency peer: soupçonnée (-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 « souvenait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- soulevant
soulevant
68,257 corpus weight
- soupapes
soupapes
68,256 corpus weight
- soupçonnée
soupçonnée
68,255 corpus weight
- souvenait
souvenait
68,254 corpus weight
- souviendrai
souviendrai
68,253 corpus weight
- spontanées
spontanées
68,252 corpus weight
What this shows « souvenait » 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 | souvenait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \su.və.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #31,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « souvenait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around souvenait (IPA \su.və.nɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #31,747 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de souvenir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for souvenait, with forms such as "osuvenait", "souevnait", and "souveanit". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "souvent", "souvenir", "souverain", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is souvenait, spelled S-O-U-V-E-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de souvenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how souvenait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au fur et à mesure que Bartlebooth se familiarisait avec les petits morceaux de bois, il se mettait à les percevoir selon un axe privilégié, comme si ces pièces se polarisaient, se vectorisaient, se figeaient dans un mode de perception qui les assimilait, avec une irrésistible séduction, à des images, des formes, des silhouettes familières : un chapeau, u…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osuvenait
- souevnait
- souveanit
- souvenaitt
- souvenati
- souveniat
- souvennait
- souvneait
- souvvenait
- sovuenait
- ssouvenait
- suovenait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of souvenait - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).