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Which to use

“soutiendront” and “souviendront” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#49,949
“soutiendront” frequency rank
#41,016
“souviendront” frequency rank
90965
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature soutiendront souviendront
Definition Troisième personne du pluriel du futur de soutenir. Troisième personne du pluriel du futur de souvenir.

Where the eye mixes soutiendront and souviendront

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 11 letters in sequence. soutiendront and souviendront follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCVVCCCVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

12 ch
soutiendront
12 ch
souviendront

Why the eye confuses soutiendront with souviendront

A purely visual mix-up. soutiendront (\su.tjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃\) and souviendront (\su.vjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃\) 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 a single letter - t in “soutiendront” becomes v in “souviendront”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 90965, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

soutiendront is recorded at frequency rank #49,949, classified as averb, pronounced \su.tjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃\. souviendront is at rank #41,016, tagged as averb, pronounced \su.vjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃\.

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 90965, this pair ranks #4,281 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of soutiendront vs souviendront

Shared letters: deinorstu. Private to "soutiendront": -. Private to "souviendront": v.

"soutiendront" · 12 letters · shape CVVCVVCCCVCC  ·  "souviendront" · 12 letters · shape CVVCVVCCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • soutiendront ← osutiendront · sotuiendront · souitendront · souteindront · soutiednront · soutienddront · soutiendornt · soutiendrnot
  • souviendront ← osuviendront · souivendront · souveindront · souviednront · souvienddront · souviendornt · souviendrnot · souviendronnt

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "soutiendront" and "souviendront" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\su.tjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃\ versus \su.vjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "soutiendront" vs "souviendront" - which ranks higher?
"souviendront" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #41,016 in our French list, against #49,949 for "soutiendront". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "soutiendront" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "souviendront" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #4,281 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • 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 #4,281 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