Which to use
“souhait” and “souhaits” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,117
- “souhait” frequency rank
- #15,258
- “souhaits” frequency rank
- 22375
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | souhait | souhaits |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Vœu, désir qu’une chose s’accomplisse. | Pluriel de souhait. |
Same sound, different letters: souhait vs souhaits
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. souhait runs 7 letters (CVVCVVC) against souhaits's 8 (CVVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: souhait vs souhaits
This is the hard kind. souhait and souhaits are pronounced identically (\swɛ\) and both work as anoun. 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 extra letter(s) - “souhait” sits inside “souhaits”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22375, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
souhait is recorded at frequency rank #7,117, classified as anoun, pronounced \swɛ\. souhaits is at rank #15,258, tagged as anoun, pronounced \swɛ\.
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 22375, this pair ranks #358,329 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of souhait vs souhaits
Shared letters: ahiostu. Private to "souhait": -. Private to "souhaits": -.
"souhait" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVVC · "souhaits" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "souhait" and "souhaits" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "souhait" or "souhaits" show up more?
Useful next steps
"souhait" and "souhaits" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "souhait" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "souhaits" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #358,329 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "souhait" and "souhaits" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "souciait vs souhait". 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 #358,329 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.