Which to use
“soudée” is an adjective and “souder” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #29,983
- “soudée” frequency rank
- #28,752
- “souder” frequency rank
- 58735
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | soudée | souder |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de soudé. | Unir directement par le martelage ou la fusion autogène des parties en contact, de manière à n’en faire qu’une même pièce, en parlant des pièces de métal. |
Same sound, different letters: soudée vs souder
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. soudée (CVVCVV) and souder (CVVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Same sound, different spelling - soudée / souder
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: soudée and souder carry the same recorded pronunciation, \su.de\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58735, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
soudée is recorded at frequency rank #29,983, classified as anadj, pronounced \su.de\. souder is at rank #28,752, tagged as averb, pronounced \su.de\.
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 58735, this pair ranks #107,246 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of soudée vs souder
Shared letters: deosu. Private to "soudée": é. Private to "souder": r.
"soudée" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVV · "souder" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- souder ← osuder · soduer · soudder · souderr · souedr · ssouder · suoder
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "soudée" and "souder" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "soudée" vs "souder" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"soudée" and "souder" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "soudée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "souder" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #107,246 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "soudée" and "souder" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "soler vs souder". 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 #107,246 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.