soccer

/[ˈsɒk.ə]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#20,412

in German word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

soccer is aGermannoun. It means: (Europäischer) Fußball (im Gegensatz zu American football) Pronounced [ˈsɒk.ə]. Often confused with Söder and Socke.

Key facts for soccer
PropertyValue
Headwordsoccer
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈsɒk.ə]
Letters6
Frequency rank#20,412
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of soccer in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for soccer is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsɒk.ə]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,412 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Europäischer) Fußball (im Gegensatz zu American football)".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for soccer, with forms such as "osccer", "scocer", and "soccerr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Söder", "Socke", "Sommer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is soccer, spelled S-O-C-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Europäischer) Fußball (im Gegensatz zu American football)

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osccer,scocer,soccerr,soccre,socecr,socer,ssoccer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for soccer

Misspelling Variants of "soccer"

osccer6scocer6soccerr7soccre6socecr6socer5ssoccer7
Misspelling Variants of "soccer"

Frequency rank: #20,412 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "soccer"?
"soccer" is spelled S-O-C-C-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsɒk.ə].
What does "soccer" mean?
As a noun, "soccer" means: (Europäischer) Fußball (im Gegensatz zu American football)
What words are commonly confused with "soccer"?
"soccer" is commonly confused with "Söder", "Socke", "Sommer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "soccer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soccer" is [ˈsɒk.ə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soccer" come from?
"soccer" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.