Which to use
“souffrent” and “souffres” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,904
- “souffrent” frequency rank
- #35,287
- “souffres” frequency rank
- 43191
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | souffrent | souffres |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe souffrir. | Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe souffrir. |
Same sound, different letters: souffrent vs souffres
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. souffrent runs 9 letters (CVVCCCVCC) against souffres's 8 (CVVCCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - souffrent and souffres
This is the hard kind. souffrent and souffres are pronounced identically (\sufʁ\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43191, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
souffrent is recorded at frequency rank #7,904, classified as averb, pronounced \sufʁ\. souffres is at rank #35,287, tagged as averb, pronounced \sufʁ\.
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 43191, this pair ranks #219,960 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of souffrent vs souffres
Shared letters: eforsu. Private to "souffrent": nt. Private to "souffres": -.
"souffrent" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCCVCC · "souffres" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "souffrent" for "souffres" ever safe?
Frequency check: "souffrent" vs "souffres" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "souffrent" / "souffres". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "souffrent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "souffres" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #219,960 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "souffrent" and "souffres" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sofres vs souffres". 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 #219,960 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.