Which to use
“soulignée” and “soulignent” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #34,317
- “soulignée” frequency rank
- #17,565
- “soulignent” frequency rank
- 51882
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | soulignée | soulignent |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de souligner. | Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de souligner. |
Where the eye mixes soulignée and soulignent
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. soulignée runs 9 letters (CVVCVCCVV) against soulignent's 10 (CVVCVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: soulignée vs soulignent
A purely visual mix-up. soulignée (\su.li.ɲe\) and soulignent (\su.liɲ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51882, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
soulignée is recorded at frequency rank #34,317, classified as averb, pronounced \su.li.ɲe\. soulignent is at rank #17,565, tagged as averb, pronounced \su.liɲ\.
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 51882, this pair ranks #151,761 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of soulignée vs soulignent
Shared letters: egilnosu. Private to "soulignée": é. Private to "soulignent": t.
"soulignée" · 9 letters · shape CVVCVCCVV · "soulignent" · 10 letters · shape CVVCVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- soulignent ← osulignent · soluignent · souilgnent · soulginent · souligennt · souliggnent · soulignennt · soulignentt
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "soulignée" for "soulignent" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "soulignée" or "soulignent" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "soulignée" and "soulignent" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "soulignée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "soulignent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #151,761 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "soulignée" and "soulignent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "soulignée vs soulignés". 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 #151,761 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.