souventes fois

/\su.vɑ̃t fwa\/ adv

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

souventes fois is anFrenchadv. It means: Souvent ; fréquemment. Pronounced \su.vɑ̃t fwa\.

Key facts for souventes fois
PropertyValue
Headwordsouventes fois
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\su.vɑ̃t fwa\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

souventes fois is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for souventes fois is 14 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \su.vɑ̃t fwa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Souvent ; fréquemment.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for souventes fois in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is souventes fois, spelled S-O-U-V-E-N-T-E-S- -F-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Souvent ; fréquemment.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "souventes fois"?
"souventes fois" is spelled S-O-U-V-E-N-T-E-S- -F-O-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \su.vɑ̃t fwa\.
What does "souventes fois" mean?
As an adv, "souventes fois" means: Souvent ; fréquemment.
How do you pronounce "souventes fois"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "souventes fois" is \su.vɑ̃t fwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "souventes fois" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.