souveraines

\su.vʁɛn\

/\su.vʁɛn\/ adj

The verdict

“souveraines” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,755. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,755
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de souverain.

Corpus desk

Index FR-souveraines · souveraines · French

souveraines · rank #28,755 · 15 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,755
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH spectres

Nearest frequency peer: spectres (+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 « souveraines »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « souveraines » 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).

souveraines vs souverains
91% similar
souveraines vs souveraineté
83% similar
souveraines vs souverain
82% similar

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

Key facts for souveraines
PropertyValue
Headwordsouveraines
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\su.vʁɛn\
Letters11
Frequency rank#28,755
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « souveraines »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).souverainesse 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 « spectres » (#28,756), « soulevés » (#28,753), « splendides » (#28,757). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « souveraines » est au #28,755. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around souveraines (IPA \su.vʁɛn\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,755 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de souverain.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for souveraines, with forms such as "osuveraines", "souevraines", and "souvearines". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "souverains", "souveraineté", "souverain", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is souveraines, spelled S-O-U-V-E-R-A-I-N-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de souverain.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Bien que les fatigues des précédentes chorégraphies l’eussent rendue haletante et que, sur son corps tanagréen, ruisselassent, ainsi que sur une rose jaune les perles matinales, de petites gouttelettes de sueur, saltatrix presque nue maintenant, en proie aux exigences souveraines de Vénus, encore qu’ignorante des voluptés perverses autant que de la subtil…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osuveraines
  • souevraines
  • souvearines
  • souveraiens
  • souverainess
  • souverainnes
  • souverainse
  • souveranies
  • souverianes
  • souverraines
  • souvreaines
  • souvveraines
  • sovueraines
  • ssouveraines
  • suoveraines

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of souveraines - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

osuveraines2souevraines2souvearines2souveraiens2souverainess1souverainnes1souverainse2souveranies2
Edit distance from "souveraines"

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 "souveraines"?
"souveraines" is spelled S-O-U-V-E-R-A-I-N-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \su.vʁɛn\.
What does "souveraines" mean?
As an adjective, "souveraines" means: Féminin pluriel de souverain.
What words are commonly confused with "souveraines"?
"souveraines" is commonly confused with "souverains", "souveraineté", "souverain". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "souveraines"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "souveraines" is \su.vʁɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "souveraines" come from?
"souveraines" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list