soil

[sɔɪl]

/[sɔɪl]/ noun

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The verdict

“soil” is uncommon German (frequency #60,081 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,081
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Boden, die Erde, der Erdboden

Corpus desk

Index DE-soil · soil · German

soil · rank #60,081 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #60,081
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Sklavenhandel

Nearest frequency peer: Sklavenhandel (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „soil“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „soil“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for soil
PropertyValue
Headwordsoil
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[sɔɪl]
Letters4
Frequency rank#60,081
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „soil“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).soilfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Sklavenhandel“ (#60,080), „solcherart“ (#60,082), „Sitzes“ (#60,079). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „soil“ bei #60,081. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

soil is uncommon German at frequency #60,081 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [sɔɪl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der Boden, die Erde, der Erdboden".

soil has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is soil, spelled S-O-I-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    der Boden, die Erde, der Erdboden

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how soil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The soil is pretty sandy around here.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "soil"?
"soil" is spelled S-O-I-L. The IPA pronunciation is [sɔɪl].
What does "soil" mean?
As a noun, "soil" means: der Boden, die Erde, der Erdboden
How do you pronounce "soil"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soil" is [sɔɪl]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soil" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "soil", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sins#60,078stig#60,108taka#60,131scam#60,029

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list