souhaitéevssouhaitezWhich spelling fits?

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.

9 ch
souhaitée
9 ch
souhaitez

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

  • souhaitezosuhaitez · sohuaitez · souahitez · souhaietz · souhaitezz · souhaittez · souhaitze · souhatiez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "souhaitée" and "souhaitez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\swɛ.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "souhaitée" vs "souhaitez" - which ranks higher?
"souhaitez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,246 in our French list, against #20,858 for "souhaitée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list