social

/[sɔsjal]/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,685

in German word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

social is anGermanadj. It means: sozial Pronounced [sɔsjal]. It ranks #2,685 in German word frequency. Often confused with Sofia and soviel.

Key facts for social
PropertyValue
Headwordsocial
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdj
IPA[sɔsjal]
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,685
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for social is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sɔsjal]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,685 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "sozial".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for social, with forms such as "oscial", "scoial", and "socail". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Sofia", "soviel", "sozial", 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 social, spelled S-O-C-I-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    sozial

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: oscial,scoial,socail,soccial,sociall,socila,soical,ssocial

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for social

Misspelling Variants of "social"

oscial6scoial6socail6soccial7sociall7socila6soical6ssocial7
Misspelling Variants of "social"

Frequency rank: #2,685 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "social"?
"social" is spelled S-O-C-I-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is [sɔsjal].
What does "social" mean?
As an adj, "social" means: sozial
What words are commonly confused with "social"?
"social" is commonly confused with "Sofia", "soviel", "sozial". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "social"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "social" is [sɔsjal]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "social" come from?
"social" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter S in our German index:

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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.