soudéesvssouderConfusable pair

Quick tell: soudées is a adjective, souder is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“soudées” is an adjective and “souder” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#44,197
“soudées” frequency rank
#28,752
“souder” frequency rank
72949
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature soudées souder
Definition Féminin pluriel 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: soudées vs souder

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. soudées runs 7 letters (CVVCVVC) against souder's 6 (CVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
soudées
6 ch
souder

Same sound, different spelling - soudées / souder

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: soudées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72949, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

soudées is recorded at frequency rank #44,197, 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 72949, this pair ranks #42,246 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of soudées vs souder

Shared letters: deosu. Private to "soudées": é. Private to "souder": r.

"soudées" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVVC  ·  "souder" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • souder ← osuder · soduer · soudder · souderr · souedr · ssouder · suoder

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "soudées" and "souder" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "soudées" is an adjective and "souder" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "soudées" or "souder"?
"souder" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,752 in our French list, against #44,197 for "soudées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"soudées" and "souder" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "soudées" 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 #42,246 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "soudées" and "souder" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "soudées vs soudures". 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 #42,246 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list