Which to use
“souhaité” and “souhaitez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,893
- “souhaité” frequency rank
- #7,246
- “souhaitez” frequency rank
- 14139
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | souhaité | souhaitez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier de souhaiter. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de souhaiter. |
Same sound, different letters: souhaité vs souhaitez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. souhaité runs 8 letters (CVVCVVCV) against souhaitez's 9 (CVVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - souhaité / souhaitez
This is the hard kind. souhaité and souhaitez are pronounced identically (\swɛ.te\) 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 14139, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
souhaité is recorded at frequency rank #6,893, classified as averb, pronounced \swɛ.te\. souhaitez is at rank #7,246, tagged as averb, pronounced \swɛ.te\.
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 14139, this pair ranks #398,026 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of souhaité vs souhaitez
Shared letters: ahiostu. Private to "souhaité": é. Private to "souhaitez": ez.
"souhaité" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVVCV · "souhaitez" · 9 letters · shape CVVCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- souhaitez ← osuhaitez · sohuaitez · souahitez · souhaietz · souhaitezz · souhaittez · souhaitze · souhatiez
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "souhaité" for "souhaitez" ever safe?
Which is more common, "souhaité" or "souhaitez"?
Useful next steps
"souhaité" and "souhaitez" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "souhaité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "souhaitez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #398,026 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "souhaité" and "souhaitez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "souhaité vs sourate". 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 #398,026 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.