Which to use
“soulignée” and “souligner” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #34,317
- “soulignée” frequency rank
- #6,138
- “souligner” frequency rank
- 40455
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | soulignée | souligner |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de souligner. | Tirer une ligne sous un mot, ou sous plusieurs mots. |
Same sound, different letters: soulignée vs souligner
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. soulignée (CVVCVCCVV) and souligner (CVVCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Same sound, different spelling - soulignée / souligner
This is the hard kind. soulignée and souligner are pronounced identically (\su.li.ɲe\) 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 40455, 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\. souligner is at rank #6,138, tagged as averb, pronounced \su.li.ɲe\.
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 40455, this pair ranks #240,370 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of soulignée vs souligner
Shared letters: egilnosu. Private to "soulignée": é. Private to "souligner": r.
"soulignée" · 9 letters · shape CVVCVCCVV · "souligner" · 9 letters · shape CVVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- souligner ← osuligner · soluigner · souilgner · soulginer · souligenr · souliggner · soulignerr · soulignner
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "soulignée" for "souligner" ever safe?
Which is more common, "soulignée" or "souligner"?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "soulignée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "souligner" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #240,370 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "soulignée" and "souligner" 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 #240,370 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.