souvenait

\su.və.nɛ\

/\su.və.nɛ\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows « souvenait » 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).

souvenait vs souvent
78% similar
souvenait vs souvenir
78% similar
souvenait vs souverain
78% similar

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

Key facts for souvenait
PropertyValue
Headwordsouvenait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\su.və.nɛ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#31,747
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « souvenait »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.souvenaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « soupçonnée » (#31,746), « souviendrai » (#31,748), « soupapes » (#31,745). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « souvenait » est au #31,747. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de souvenir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

osuvenait2souevnait2souveanit2souvenaitt1souvenati2souveniat2souvennait1souvneait2
Edit distance from "souvenait"

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

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

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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list