Which to use
“souriant” and “souriants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,563
- “souriant” frequency rank
- #41,015
- “souriants” frequency rank
- 50578
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | souriant | souriants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui sourit. | Masculin pluriel de souriant. |
Same sound, different letters: souriant vs souriants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Homophone desk: souriant vs souriants
This is the hard kind. souriant and souriants are pronounced identically (\su.ʁjɑ̃\) and both work as anadjective. 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 extra letter(s) - “souriant” sits inside “souriants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50578, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
souriant is recorded at frequency rank #9,563, classified as anadj, pronounced \su.ʁjɑ̃\. souriants is at rank #41,015, tagged as anadj, pronounced \su.ʁjɑ̃\.
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 50578, this pair ranks #161,566 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of souriant vs souriants
Shared letters: ainorstu. Private to "souriant": -. Private to "souriants": -.
"souriant" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVVCC · "souriants" · 9 letters · shape CVVCVVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "souriant" / "souriants". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "souriant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "souriants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #161,566 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "souriant" and "souriants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "souriants vs sourient". 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 #161,566 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.