Which to use
“soudage” and “soupape” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #40,508
- “soudage” frequency rank
- #32,602
- “soupape” frequency rank
- 73110
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | soudage | soupape |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de souder. | Petit levier ou languette à ressort obturant la circulation de fluide dans une pompe ou un tuyau en deçà d’une pression donnée. |
Where the eye mixes soudage and soupape
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. soudage and soupape 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 soupape
A purely visual mix-up. soudage (\su.daʒ\) and soupape (\su.pap\) 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 73110, 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\. soupape is at rank #32,602, tagged as anoun, pronounced \su.pap\.
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 73110, this pair ranks #41,586 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of soudage vs soupape
Shared letters: aeosu. Private to "soudage": dg. Private to "soupape": p.
"soudage" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCV · "soupape" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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In ordinary French text, does "soudage" or "soupape" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "soudage" and "soupape" 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 "soupape" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #41,586 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "soudage" and "soupape" 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 #41,586 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.