Which to use
“soudage” and “soudure” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #40,508
- “soudage” frequency rank
- #21,774
- “soudure” frequency rank
- 62282
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | soudage | soudure |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de souder. | Action de souder ; le résultat de ce travail. |
Where the eye mixes soudage and soudure
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. soudage and soudure follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Visual trap between soudage and soudure
A purely visual mix-up. soudage (\su.daʒ\) and soudure (\su.dyʁ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62282, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
soudage is recorded at frequency rank #40,508, classified as anoun, pronounced \su.daʒ\. soudure is at rank #21,774, tagged as anoun, pronounced \su.dyʁ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 62282, this pair ranks #87,925 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of soudage vs soudure
Shared letters: deosu. Private to "soudage": ag. Private to "soudure": r.
"soudage" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCV · "soudure" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "soudage" and "soudure" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "soudage" or "soudure"?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "soudage" and "soudure" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "soudage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "soudure" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #87,925 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "soudage" and "soudure" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "soudage vs soutane". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #87,925 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.