Which to use
“souhaitée” and “souhaitez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #20,858
- “souhaitée” frequency rank
- #7,246
- “souhaitez” frequency rank
- 28104
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | souhaitée | souhaitez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de souhaiter. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de souhaiter. |
Same sound, different letters: souhaitée vs souhaitez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. souhaitée (CVVCVVCVV) and souhaitez (CVVCVVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Homophone desk: souhaitée vs souhaitez
This is the hard kind. souhaitée 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28104, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
souhaitée is recorded at frequency rank #20,858, 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 28104, this pair ranks #324,897 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of souhaitée vs souhaitez
Shared letters: aehiostu. Private to "souhaitée": é. Private to "souhaitez": z.
"souhaitée" · 9 letters · shape CVVCVVCVV · "souhaitez" · 9 letters · shape CVVCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- souhaitez ← osuhaitez · sohuaitez · souahitez · souhaietz · souhaitezz · souhaittez · souhaitze · souhatiez
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "souhaitée" and "souhaitez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "souhaitée" vs "souhaitez" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
"souhaitée" and "souhaitez" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "souhaitée" 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 #324,897 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "souhaitée" and "souhaitez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "souhaitée vs souhaits". 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 #324,897 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.