souveraine

/\su.vʁɛn\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#15,509

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

souveraine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Femme qui possède, en qui réside l’autorité souveraine. Pronounced \su.vʁɛn\. Often confused with souverains and souveraines.

Key facts for souveraine
PropertyValue
Headwordsouveraine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\su.vʁɛn\
Letters10
Frequency rank#15,509
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of souveraine in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for souveraine is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \su.vʁɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,509 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for souveraine, with forms such as "osuveraine", "souevraine", and "souvearine". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "souverains", "souveraines", "souveraineté", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 souveraine, spelled S-O-U-V-E-R-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Femme qui possède, en qui réside l’autorité souveraine.
  2. 2
    Princesse souveraine, monarque.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osuveraine,souevraine,souvearine,souveraien,souverainne,souveranie,souveriane,souverraine,souvreaine,souvveraine,sovueraine,ssouveraine,suoveraine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for souveraine

Misspelling Variants of "souveraine"

osuveraine10souevraine10souvearine10souveraien10souverainne11souveranie10souveriane10souverraine11
Misspelling Variants of "souveraine"

Frequency rank: #15,509 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "souveraine"?
"souveraine" is spelled S-O-U-V-E-R-A-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \su.vʁɛn\.
What does "souveraine" mean?
As a noun, "souveraine" means: Femme qui possède, en qui réside l’autorité souveraine.
What words are commonly confused with "souveraine"?
"souveraine" is commonly confused with "souverains", "souveraines", "souveraineté". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "souveraine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "souveraine" is \su.vʁɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "souveraine" come from?
"souveraine" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.