Souvigny
The verdict
“Souvigny” is uncommon French (frequency #93,271 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,271
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Allier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souvigny · Souvigny · French
Souvigny · rank #93,271 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,271
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souviendrait
Nearest frequency peer: souviendrait (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Souvigny »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soupçonnons
soupçonnons
6,733 corpus weight
- souvenaient
souvenaient
6,732 corpus weight
- souviendrait
souviendrait
6,731 corpus weight
- Souvigny
Souvigny
6,730 corpus weight
- SPC
SPC
6,729 corpus weight
- speakerine
speakerine
6,728 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Souvigny » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Souvigny |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Souvigny » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Souvigny is uncommon French at frequency #93,271 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Souvigny, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Souvigny, spelled S-O-U-V-I-G-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Allier.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de l’Allier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Souvigny appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deux gendarmes arrivèrent bientôt, dont l’un avait des galons blancs sur le bras : c’était le maréchal-des-logis, chef de la brigade de Souvigny.
On allait régulièrement aux foires de Bourbon, d’Ygrande, de Cérilly, de Lurcy, et bien souvent à celles de Souvigny, de Cosnes, de Cressanges et du Montet.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).